PeliusAnar
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Listening very politicians and other people, I hear a lot about the urgency of climate change. I understand the climate is changing, it has been doing that since climate first existed. My issue is that there have been many claims over the years. Decades of Claims. I personally remember Al Gore claiming there would be no ice caps by 2013 and he had a movie called an Inconvenient Truth. The only thing inconvenient about it was that it was a failed prophecy.
In regards to Freedom of Speech, there is a clear limit on calling out fire in a crowded building causing a panic. My issue with how climate change is portrayed is that feels like climate change is telling me the Earth is on fire. Should there be consequences when these people are wrong and inciting panic over the years? Every time I hear someone saying that we need to act NOW due to climate change, I roll my eyes and mentally ask 'what are you trying to sell me.'
There are a laws that prohibit fortune telling. The spoiler has the text from the PA law against it, just read the bolded parts and they could apply to claims on climate change. Here is another question to consider, are claims about climate change a form of fortune telling? It seems just about as accurate but without the crystal ball and the cold reading to make it entertaining, just the fear.
In regards to Freedom of Speech, there is a clear limit on calling out fire in a crowded building causing a panic. My issue with how climate change is portrayed is that feels like climate change is telling me the Earth is on fire. Should there be consequences when these people are wrong and inciting panic over the years? Every time I hear someone saying that we need to act NOW due to climate change, I roll my eyes and mentally ask 'what are you trying to sell me.'
There are a laws that prohibit fortune telling. The spoiler has the text from the PA law against it, just read the bolded parts and they could apply to claims on climate change. Here is another question to consider, are claims about climate change a form of fortune telling? It seems just about as accurate but without the crystal ball and the cold reading to make it entertaining, just the fear.
A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he pretends for gain or lucre, to tell fortunes or predict future events, by cards, tokens, the inspection of the head or hands of any person, or by the age of anyone, or by consulting the movements of the heavenly bodies, or in any other manner, or for gain or lucre, pretends to effect any purpose by spells, charms, necromancy, or incantation, or advises the taking or administering of what are commonly called love powders or potions, or prepares the same to be taken or administered, or publishes by card, circular, sign, newspaper or other means that he can predict future events, or for gain or lucre, pretends to enable anyone to get or to recover stolen property, or to tell where lost property is, or to stop bad luck, or to give good luck, or to put bad luck on a person or animal, or to stop or injure the business or health of a person or shorten his life, or to give success in business, enterprise, speculation, and games of chance, or to win the affection of a person, or to make one person marry another, or to induce a person to make or alter a will, or to tell where money or other property is hidden, or to tell where to dig for treasure, or to make a person to dispose of property in favor of another.