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The sad problem with climate change is that otherwise sensible people are willing to put intellectual honesty aside in the name of "we desperately need to convi
by Hondor 10y ago
The sad problem with climate change is that otherwise sensible people are willing to put intellectual honesty aside in the name of "we desperately need to convince everyone that a disaster is coming so they'll be scared into preventing it". Saying something that might calm people down and fear less is heretical, no matter if it's true or not.
- wpietri 10y agoYou ignore here the army of lobbyists who are paid to put intellectual honesty aside in the name of convincing everyone not to worry because that protects hundreds of billions in revenue. it wasn't the people who accept global warming as a reality who started politicizing this. It's unfair to blame them for getting political in response.
- inimino 10y agoIt's unfair to blame only them.