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> HN leans fairly heavily liberal and extremely heavily scientific the rest of the time. HN also has a strong libertarian bias. There's some correlation betwee
by Florin_Andrei 10y ago
> HN leans fairly heavily liberal and extremely heavily scientific the rest of the time.
HN also has a strong libertarian bias. There's some correlation between subscribing to that type of dogma and being an active climate change denier.
- cmurf 10y agoI think there's a stronger correlation for religious people being active climate change deniers. Surely the creator would not destroy EVERYONE all at the same time?! That would be capricious and unfair! But I admit I can't think of a purely free market solution for avoiding climate change, and perhaps as libertarian types haven't figured out how to innovate those incentives they just have to deny it's not real rather than admit the free market isn't going to innovate those incentives and arrive at a correction on its own before it's too late. The reality is, it's already too late. Now we're in the position of having to manage the consequences of our failure: soft landing vs hard landing.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I think there's a stronger correlation for religious people being active climate change deniers. Surely the creator would not destroy EVERYONE all at the same time?! That would be capricious and unfair! Climate change won't kill everyone at the same time, though.
- cmurf 10y agoFair point. But then, so the story goes, God sent the flood no doubt killing most of humanity all at once in a rather capricious and vindictive act of collective punishment (and mass murder). So there may be some cognitive dissonance going on in more than one way.
- DrScump 10y agoHN also has a strong libertarian bias. Having a sizable libertarian presence is not the same as having a "strong libertarian bias".
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoYou're right. I stand corrected. Thank you.