In a word, “no”
Why it’s good to laugh at climate change
Did you hear the one about the climate policy analyst? Or the polar bear who walked into a bar?
Climate change is not generally considered a source of amusement: in terms of comedic material, the forecast is an ongoing cultural drought. But perhaps campaigners have missed a trick in overlooking the powerful role that satire and subversion can play in social change. Could humour cut through the malaise that has smothered the public discourse, activating our cultural antennae in a way that graphs, infographics and images of melting ice could never do?
The problem is, when it comes to any politics and stuff, Lefties are not humorous. Or, in British, humourous. Their default mode is to sneer, condescend, insult, and abuse.
But while online ridicule directed towards climate ‘deniers’ (generally portrayed as either too stupid to understand the science, or as conspiracy theorists) may appeal to the usual crowd, its hard to see how this kind of approach will breach the political divide. After all, the feeling of being laughed at by a sneering, left-leaning elite is not appealing. One notorious attempt by the 10:10 campaign and director Richard Curtis at ‘humorously’ marginalising opposition towards environmentalism backfired completely. It turns out that most people don’t find graphic depictions of children’s heads exploding all that hilarious after all…
The hell you say! It says quite a bit about Warmists, a subsection of the Progressive movement, would think that the video had any humor, er, humour, in it at all. They thought so much of their “humor/humour” that they immediately worked to make sure copies of the video uploaded to Youtube and other outlets were wacked. Fortunately, there are still some out there
That’s what Warmists think is “humour”. These are people who think stabbing a “denier” with an icicle is funny.
Many “reasonable” Warmists have highly recommended that Warmists take a chill on the insanity, and are always ignored.
