We are living in an age where people outright deny the existence of a global pandemic because they don't like the inconvenience of their favorite bars being closed or having to wear a mask. There is no document in the universe of any length that will convince them.
We're living in an age where people deny the existence of jurisdictions that have gone without arbitrary closings and they're doing just fine, if not better than many jurisdictions that have had harsh lockdowns. But no document in the universe of any length will convince them that population control is not the answer.
Harsh lockdowns are the last-ditch effort when everything is out of control. The places that didn't do them didn't need them because they had a good initial response or have very favorable demographics or culture
> We are living in an age where people outright deny the existence of a global pandemic because they don't like the inconvenience
Well, no one I know, and no one they know, has been hurt by the coronavirus. And the list of people I know includes two people from Wuhan. If we went out a third degree, we would likely start to pick up victims.
On the other hand, I do personally know someone who was injured by the response; this person responded so badly to the lockdown that they had to be committed.
It's possible that the existence of a pandemic isn't what people are denying...
If we're going with anecdotes, my SO's parents both had it with her mother spending 10 days in hospital during which they started her on dialysis, which she will need for the rest of her life.
I recommend Steffen et al, Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene (2018) [1]. You can’t read the whole thing in 5 minutes, but you can read the three figures and their captions, which say a lot, and it’s open access, peer reviewed and recent. Maybe your point is that the Earth system is too complicated to explain in 5 minutes, and that’s fair enough, but I do think the climate change policy debate would be a little more sensible if you were expected to spend at least 5 minutes reading this kind of literature before participating.
Thank you, but this is not for the layman. I have no problem recommending something that takes longer than 5 minutes to read, but it does have to be readable.
It's longer than 5 minutes, but David Attenborough's new film: A Life On Our Planet [1] presents the issues were facing from unsustainable growth and offers solutions in maintaining robust biodiversity on our planet.
