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by anderspitman·9y ago·view on hn ↗
Thanks for the reply. Definitely an interesting approach, and I appreciate your efforts to play it safe with respect to the environment. But you're correct that this didn't really address my question. Maybe I can ask another way. If someone used the ice age argument, how do you think a well educated and articulated person who disagreed with them would open up a meaningful dialogue?
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Regardless of what the argument is. If you disagree with someone, and want to persuade them to your way of thinking, you CANNOT make the conversation a you're-wrong-and-I'm-right discussion or you'll lose every time. Facts are going to be of little use as well. The only way to convince someone of something is to figure out how to present it in a way that benefits them.

I think this will be quite hard with climate change, considering the myriad other issues in life that are much more immediate concerns for people.