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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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on the contrary, bill nye perfectly explained axial tilt causing seasons to millions of children, and that greek myth shit is needlessly complicated and stupid as hell compared to "look at ball tilt"
a garden is perfectly beautiful on its own without talking about faeries instead of the nitrogen cycle
Except axial tilt merely explains the change in weather. It doesn't account for the experience of the changing of seasons like trees losing their leaves. Sure, you could pull out more science but having to explain cosmology, biology, and weather systems to a kid who asks "Why is it cold in the winter?" is kinda silly. Otherwise, you're just telling them about an abstraction of an abstraction interpreted through your elementary school science teacher.
You're not Bill Nye with a team of writers and a TV show budget. Your you and presumably being asked on the fly by your kid.
that happens because the leaves are there to pick up on sunlight and there is less sunlight in winter so many trees kill the leaves to save resources in winter
the less sunlight is also why it is cold
This is such a bad-faithed interpretation of the point of my paragraph that I must conclude it's deliberate. No one is literally questioning axial tilt. It just doesn't explain the practical experience of the seasons changing in the way a good story can.