Was it a Lie, a Delusion, or a Mistake? - 2

WOD Latitude Layers

When an individual ignores a life-threatening danger that applies only to them, it is usually called 'denial' with perhaps a little 'suicidal' mixed in.

When a group ignores a problem endangering it's existence it is usually called group-think denial, with perhaps a lot of 'suicidal' mixed in: 

"In other words, a society does not ever die 'from natural causes', but always dies from suicide or murder --- and nearly always from the former, as this chapter has shown."

(A once-famous historian; cf. Etiology of Social Dementia, 2009, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2017; What Kind of Intelligence Is A Lethal Mutation?, 2013; What Kind of Intelligence Is Prescience?, 2012; Did Abiotic Intelligence Precede Biotic Intelligence?, 2012; Putting A Face on Machine Mutation, 2009).

According to the Bureau of Atomic Scientists a few years ago three items are threatening 'our group':

"On 20 January 2022, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set their infamous Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year running. Their accompanying report — entitled ‘At Doom’s Doorstep’ — identified three key factors which brought humanity “the closest it has ever been to civilisation-ending apocalypse”.

Two of these factors are unlikely to surprise many readers: namely, climate change and the growing threat of nuclear war. The third might be a little surprising: “a corrupted information ecosphere that undermines rational decision-making”. Though some media outlets do deal with the concentration of media influence, this is rarely seen as an existential threat."

(Was it a Lie, a Delusion, or a Mistake?, emphasis added). Dredd Blog focuses on all three from year to year and from series to series.

To break with the group-think denial of global warming induced climate change, I have added some appendices following recent updates from public databases (Thermal Expansion, Conservative Temperature).

Dredd Blog alerts readers in an attempt to counter the "corrupted information ecosphere."

The previous post in this series is here.

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"Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake" - Things Have Changed (Dylan)

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