• JoBo@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    It’s the fault of politicians …

    … who are funded by Big Carbon.

    This is not about personal responsibility, it is about power. No amount of education protects you from misinformation, or a lack of information, when powerful people have a financial interest in burying the truth.

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      Big carbon lobbies politicians to dismantle education, yeah. You can’t say education doesn’t fix this when that’s the thing they’re paying to destroy.

      A quality education should include media literacy, also, which is what inoculates you against the kind of thought viruses that misinformation presents.

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        The people who are doing the lobbying and dismantling have the best educations money can buy. This is a structural problem. It’s not going to be solved by everyone being as clever and conscientious as you are.