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What topics should be a priority?
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The dangerous part is that this is priority by popularity. It's misleading like McDonalds is the most popular food but most know that it is not the best.
What is missing is the identification of the real problems and their communication so that everybody can help to solve them.
How do you determine what the "real problems" are?
Well, for example, the top priority is cost of living, while climate change is quite far down. But climate change is already increasing the cost of living and will do so further, but people don't seem to make the link.
causes vs symptoms I guess
That's what society has to figure out. We have chosen that science doesn't work for pandemics. So I have no idea how there can be a meaningful answer. I would still use science, but that's useless without a majority.
The best way to which food people consider the best is to ask them. The best way to consider which subjects are considered most important is to ask them. What else do you suggest? It is not like poor people think "climate change is the most important but I can only afford to talk about migration"
Asking is not enough. If McDonalds is the tenth favorite food of everybody but people have totally different food choices for the other positions, McDonalds will become the most favorite despite people barely mentioning it.