Uncomfortable contradiction
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 5:03 am
Sociologist Gérard Bronner described the " deregulation of the information market " which is characterized by a multiplication of sources of information and consequently by an easier dissemination of fake news, particularly on the state of the climate. Numerous psychological studies show that we are not only all vulnerable to this false information but that it also represents one of the major obstacles to engaging in actions to mitigate climate change. Understanding the purposes for which fake news around the climate is used is therefore essential.
Is it simply a protective mechanism to avoid the anxiety of lithuania mobile database catastrophe and "th between our behaviors and the climate emergency" , as described by Pierre André, a PhD student in philosophy , in the magazine Le Un devoted to climate, or is it a conscious political agenda that goes against any notion of climate justice? For Nicole de Almeida, "climate skepticism is a bonus for inertia" and benefits those who do not want to change.
Social networks, amplifiers of noise… Facebook, Twitter and TikTok are cultivating – and feeding off – a new distrust of the scientific community that is part of the crisis of confidence in all institutions. Everything is equal, everything can be said. Thanks to social networks, there is a “gigantic conversation that has taken place on a global scale, where all voices are enlisted. the voice of scientists, the voice of politicians […] and the voice of young people, of women. A snowball effect that contributes to a cacophony where everything and its opposite can be said ,” describes Nicole de Almeida.
Is it simply a protective mechanism to avoid the anxiety of lithuania mobile database catastrophe and "th between our behaviors and the climate emergency" , as described by Pierre André, a PhD student in philosophy , in the magazine Le Un devoted to climate, or is it a conscious political agenda that goes against any notion of climate justice? For Nicole de Almeida, "climate skepticism is a bonus for inertia" and benefits those who do not want to change.
Social networks, amplifiers of noise… Facebook, Twitter and TikTok are cultivating – and feeding off – a new distrust of the scientific community that is part of the crisis of confidence in all institutions. Everything is equal, everything can be said. Thanks to social networks, there is a “gigantic conversation that has taken place on a global scale, where all voices are enlisted. the voice of scientists, the voice of politicians […] and the voice of young people, of women. A snowball effect that contributes to a cacophony where everything and its opposite can be said ,” describes Nicole de Almeida.