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I’ve been protecting electrical automobiles for 13 years, renewable vitality for 16 years, and local weather science for 25+ years. I’ve seen so many myths on these subjects, a lot misinformation. Sadly, lots of it will get fairly common, and it’s tremendous exhausting to get individuals to let go of misinformation and consider and perceive actuality.
After debunking myths a number of occasions, as a author and editor, it’s straightforward to then suppose, “We’ve achieved that. We don’t want to jot down the identical factor once more.” Nonetheless, when myths are unfold relentlessly day-after-day, we must always most likely cowl all of these items far more commonly than we do. (In fact, for our common readers, the issue is that will get fairly boring.) One factor I feel we have to lastly get round to doing is having a useful resource web page that brings collectively generally held myths, and responses to them, responses we will hold refining over time. Skeptical Science gives a wonderful instance of how to do that, however with its focus being on local weather science.
To begin, although, we have to provide you with a listing of the largest misinformation and myths relating to cleantech — EVs and renewable vitality, primarily. You may assist by dropping any concepts down within the feedback below this text.
The factor that struck me not too long ago and received me to start out an article with the title above is simply how absurdly straightforward it’s to idiot individuals, to get them to consider nonsense. You simply need to say one thing that sounds good and other people will consider it, or repeat an absurd lie over and over and over. Fox Information does it each single day, and really successfully. Folks on social media steer individuals much more incessantly away from actuality. The fossil gasoline business has gotten numerous individuals to consider that international heating isn’t taking place, or isn’t brought on by CO2 emissions. They’ve gotten individuals to help subsidies for fossil fuels however not for clear vitality, which is totally absurd. Folks have been tricked into considering EVs are a lot worse for the atmosphere than fossil-fueled vehicles. Donald Trump received tens of millions of individuals to consider that the 2020 election was “stolen” or “rigged” and received them to attempt to overthrow democracy. Regardless of a totally anti-democratic try and invade the Capitol and cease Congress from doing what voters voted for, an apparent try at a coup to cease the switch of energy, tens of tens of millions of individuals voted for the fraud once more and put him again within the White Home!
Some individuals have been fooled into considering the Earth is flat, vaccines don’t assist stop lethal ailments, and Obama isn’t American. For actual. It’s not simply an absurd joke or excessive rarity — tens of millions of individuals consider every kind of nonsense. It’s often surprising to me what individuals will consider simply because they heard it repeatedly on Fox Information.
So, with the myths that you simply’ve heard, don’t be afraid to share essentially the most absurd ones. Who is aware of what individuals suppose and what’s unfold in numerous faux information circles on social media? And likewise tell us in case you have seen glorious methods of correcting the misinformation in a pleasant, efficient manner. Whereas I’m clearly not holding again in regards to the idiocy of many individuals whereas writing this text, and never regarding myself with politically blinded individuals who have fallen for widespread right-wing media traps, once we get to writing responses to common myths and misinformation, we’ll be diplomatic and extra inclusive. In spite of everything, the goal is to get as many individuals as potential to cease believing nonsense, even true, real idiots. We wish to dissolve misinformation, not push individuals deeper into it.
It’s really easy to idiot individuals. It needs to be straightforward to unfool them, proper?
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