13/07/2025
Spot on.
The ‘solution aversion’, though, is more complex than just not wanting/liking/believing in the solutions.
It’s about change.
Some of us like change, and some of us don’t.
We see repeatedly that people will put up with situations that are anywhere along the uncomfortable range - or even harmful - because they are afraid of change, they are afraid of the unknown and the unfamiliar. “Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.”
Bad actors who benefit (at least in the short term) from the way things are currently make use of those fears and work hard to elevate them and keep things just the way they are: the way they like them.
Neither party is focused on the longer term or the greater good.
However, our world is changing.
Arguably, the biggest changes are due to human activity - activity for which we now know better and have alternative
We now need to change to make our futures better, so humans can survive and thrive into the future, so life as we know it can continue.
If you find this overwhelming, confronting or scary then remember that change and difficulties are always easier when you have someone helping you.
❓How do you feel about what is happening to our world?
❓ How do you feel about change?
❓ Do you have someone supporting you with change?
❓ Do you have someone help you create the future you want?
Let me know in the Comments.
You might be scratching your head at how those who reject the overwhelming evidence on how the global and long-documented experiment we call human-caused climate change is making weather extremes worse are the loudest to claim that weather extremes are being intensified or even created via top secret and technologically impossible weather modification experiments—but here’s the difference.
With option A, we’re responsible, so we all have to fix it. With option B, we’re not responsible - "they" are! So there's nothing for us to do, other than blame them.
Here's what's going on behind the curtain. 99.9% of climate denial, including claims of weather modification rather than human-caused climate change super-sizing our wildfires, floods and storms, is solution aversion. In other words, people believe the solutions to climate change pose a greater threat than the risks.
However, it sounds terrible to say, "sure it's real, and it's affecting the most vulnerable and marginalized people who've done the least to cause it, but I don't want to fix it." That would make us a bad person - and most of us don't want to feel like bad people! So instead, our brains engage in "motivated reasoning" - looking for reasons to explain why we must be right, rather than looking for what's right and then making up our minds afterwards.
Most climate denial falls into one of five general categories:
1. It’s not real
2. It’s not us
3. It’s not bad
3. We can’t fix it
5. It’s too late
Conspiracy theories about secret experiments have been around for decades and they fall solidly into category 2 above: “it’s not us, it’s THEM.”
For more on the (very real) research field of geoengineering and how it is not the same as the conspiracy theories you hear about on social media, watch the short Global Weirding episode linked in the comments.
