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[quote=Anonymous]https://grist.org/science/break-through-climate-apathy-data-visualization-lake-freezing-study/
This article highlighted actions that resulted in people reacting with more urgency to climate change. Seems similar principles could be applied to moving more apathetic/uneducated people up about the ongoing threat to our democracy.

"...[i]people fail to react to gradual changes in the climate. The idea is that if you put a frog in boiling water, it’ll immediately jump out. But if you put it in room-temperature water and slowly turn up the heat, the frog won’t realize the danger and will be boiled alive. Although real frogs are actually smart enough to hop out when water gets dangerously hot, the metaphor fits humans when it comes to climate change: People mentally adjust to temperature increases “disturbingly fast,” according to the study. Previous research has found that as the climate warms, [b]people adjust their sense of what seems normal based on weather from the past two to eight years, [/b]a phenomenon known as “shifting baselines.[/i]”"

"[i]One graph about lake-freezing data isn’t going to lead people to rank climate change as their top issue, of course. But Dubey thinks that if people see compelling visuals more often, it could help keep the problem of climate change from fading out of their minds. Dubey’s study shows that there’s a cognitive reason why binary data resonates with people: It creates a mental illusion that the situation has changed suddenly, when it has actually changed gradually[/i]."[/quote]

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