What Does Greta Thunberg Know About Global Warming? Diddly Squat! The Knowedge Delusion

What does Greta Thunberg know about global warming? What do you or I know about global warming? Diddly squat! (btw no disrespect to Greta)

We don’t know stuff; some of us trust the scientific community, others do not.

Well, not even that; we trust the sound-bites of our favorite mainstream or social media channels’ evaluation of what the scientific community says.

Think about it. The chances are you have never read a scientific paper on global warming, and even if you did, unless you are a climate scientist, you would not know how to evaluate it.

Most people on either side of the debate on any complex issue know anything about it. Yet, we fight and argue over the issue.

We live in a dangerous knowledge delusion that we know far more than we do. In reality, as individuals, we know precious little. Knowledge is communal.

For some of our most important beliefs, we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs.

Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous – and it is also essential.

Credit: Daniel Kahneman

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