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There's the straw man of the day.

• js8 11y ago
  No, there is evidence for serious correlation between free market belief and not believing in AGW (for example: http://www.ibtimes.com/climate-change-deniers-tend-embrace-free-market-conspiracy-theories-study-finds-757241 http://www.ibtimes.com/climate-change-deniers-tend-embrace-f... ; all the studies I found are behind paywall, it's also mentioned by Naomi Oreskes). Now of course it doesn't apply to all people who think free markets are good idea (just like creationism isn't belief of all Christians), only those who are "fundamentalists" - they think that the free market is somehow the source moral good (for example, that other forms of wealth redistribution are morally unacceptable). And it's understandable, because fixing AGW problem requires global action, which is not possible in market conditions. To fix AGW, you have to give up belief of free market as the only possible solution for things (and therefore as an ultimate source of moral good). I don't think most people who so staunchly believe in free market that they do not believe in AGW actually realize this fact, it seems to be completely analogous to creationist Christians. Actually, I think it would be interesting to meet a person who doesn't believe in AGW, yet has no problems with government regulation. But I haven't met anyone like that.
  • Thimothy 11y ago
    So that's why! It has always puzzled me HNs hivemind bias against AGW. The correlation between believing in the free market and denying AGW makes so much sense.
    • reitanqild 11y ago
      Sorry, you got it wrong. The hivemind bias is for AGW. Seems to me either there are a lot more people supporting the AGW theory or the ones who doesn't support it vote less
      • reitanqild 11y ago
        Funny, someone came in to prove my point by downvoting me immediately. (feel free to skip upvoting because this is funny :)