Climate protection: Politician statements that urgently need to be clarified

Again and again the same wrong stanzas are formulated in talk shows. Especially when it comes to dismissing measures to combat climate change as nonsense in order to throw themselves at the frightened electorate. Time for a little enlightenment.

Do you know the Dunning-Kruger effect? He is about overestimating one’s own abilities in order to present oneself as competent. The US psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger published their research on this in 1999. A major chilling finding: ignorance often leads to more confidence than knowledge.

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