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Probably because many of those increasingly read like "if we don’t stop this soon we’re all gonna die". The direr the reported consequences of human activities get, the more we think "this scientist is telling me how to live my life".

It’s like playing Russian roulette, and having all the fun ruined by some eagle eyed gun expert pointing out that actually, there’s a bullet in that gun. The risk comes from the bullet, but we’re still tempted to be annoyed at the expert instead.