# Do people talk about climate change in your day-to-day life? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208 "2019-10-03T14:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/41 "2019-10-04T15:45:50Z")
> [@Annoyed](#): > > Only to mock the fanatics and crazies. This is _by far_ the most common instances of it being brought up in my real life (e.g. “Did you hear about AOC’s environut supporter that thinks we need to start eating babies? What a whack job!”) ---
**Author:** ![shh1313](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shh1313/32/8020_2.png) [@shh1313](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shh1313)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/42 "2019-10-04T15:57:59Z")
Living in Central Texas most of my life but not all, I’ll say as a general rule of thumb we never cool off until the end of October. Texas is always as long as I remember in a semi drought or full on drought until about every 4 to 5 years we have torrential flooding which fills up the near empty lakes and flushes the rivers out. There is so many more people here and more concrete, glass, car exhaust. The developers always clear cut for new developments and add smaller trees. Not a lot has changed in that aspect. I believe as the cities and states become more crowded the devastation frm hurricanes, tornados and wildfires will become even more catastrophic due to increased population due to economic refugees and other asylum refugees fleeing from other parts of the world. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/43 "2019-10-04T15:58:21Z")
I was struck by the severe contrasts between these two adjacent posts: > [@TroutMan](#): > > The impacts will go (and already are) a lot farther than that. > > This is connecting a lot of dots without rigorous proof, so I won’t try to argue that this is absolutely correct. But it is reasonable to consider that the Syrian war crisis was triggered, or at least made worse, by [water shortages](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/is-a-lack-of-water-to-blame-for-the-conflict-in-syria-72513729/) caused in part by climate change. The resulting refugee crisis from that war was a major contributor to the rising nationalist sentiments in Europe, which have resulted in policies that are anti-immigrant and isolationist. So you can draw a line from climate change to Brexit, for example. > > I know people want incontrovertible proof of cause and effect, but that’s not how climate change is going to work. These are the kinds of impacts we see first, and they’ll shape the next 100 years a lot more than rising sea levels. > [@Annoyed](#): > > Only to mock the fanatics and crazies. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/44 "2019-10-04T16:20:35Z")
It doesn’t come up. It’s not really conversation material among the people I am around on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/45 "2019-10-04T23:38:31Z")
The AOC town hall eating-babies stunt was from a pro-Trump group, it turns out: > **[Viral Video About Eating Babies at AOC Town Hall Was Staged by Pro-Trump Group](https://gizmodo.com/viral-video-about-eating-babies-at-aoc-town-hall-was-st-1838767680)** > > LaRouche PAC, a far-right group that supports Donald Trump, has taken credit for trolling Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a town hall meeting yesterday. An operative with LaRouche made headlines overnight after standing up at... ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/46 "2019-10-05T00:00:13Z")
No, because dogs can’t talk. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/47 "2019-10-05T02:24:45Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > The crazy weather is one of the many manifestations of climate change that can be observed. If you are talking about that, you are talking about climate change, even if you don’t use the magic word “climate” I live in a very backwards town in Appalachia where the opinion on global warming is bound to be far from unanimous. People will talk about how crazy the weather is and I wonder if thats a roundabout way of talking about climate change without inviting an argument about conspiracy theories and media hysteria. I think about the environment a lot and I think a lot of my peers do to but it’s like we’re kinda closeted. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/48 "2019-10-06T01:48:04Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I was struck by the severe contrasts between these two adjacent posts: It is rather striking, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/49 "2019-10-07T11:51:56Z")
No, it’s never come up that I can recall. I retired recently and have less social contact now, but I don’t remember ever talking about it with my co-workers at lunches/happy-hours/etc. We just finished a long RV trip to visit and meet some new relatives “up nawth”, and despite hosting dinner companions almost every night, the subject never came up once. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever heard it discussed in my day-to-day activities. ---
**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208/50 "2019-10-07T14:33:07Z")
Rarely comes up as such. Even if there’s reference to unusual weather as it might apply to climate change it’s some offhand ‘they say it’s because of climate change’ and response ‘hmm, yeah I guess’. It really isn’t separate from general weather small talk. It could also be generational to some degree. In real life I try to avoid political talk outside nuclear family. The people I know who just can’t stop themselves trying to talk politics in my age range (of already grown kids) are usually worked up more about something else (Trump in general +/-, I know people in both categories; what a bunch of idiots conservatives/liberals are in general; race and poverty; etc). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-talk-about-climate-change-in-your-day-to-day-life/841208.md?page=2)