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Climate change deniers’ new battle front attacked

14 points by headalgorithm 7y ago

nathanaldensr 7y ago
Now this is excellent content for HN! /s Flagged.
hprotagonist 7y ago
“First of all, there is an attempt being made by them to deflect attention away from finding policy solutions to global warming towards promoting individual behaviour changes that affect people’s diets, travel choices and other personal behaviour,” for those climate change denialists who are also american right wing protestant christians, this is an incredibly easy rhetorical shift to make. An obsessive focus on personal piety has long been an effective way to neuter policy action at a societal level. If you think “sin” is about “me personally swearing or having lustful thoughts”, it’s very very easy to forget that “sin” is about, oh, enthusiastically depriving an entire class of people fundamental human rights for several hundred years. Guilt-tripping people into eating less meat while enthusiastically funding coal mines is the same tune, so i wouldn’t be toooo surprised to see that idea crop up a bunch. Oh joy.
insickness 7y ago
In other words, anyone who takes an approach to climate change that I don't like will be labeled a climate change denier. Heck, let's just declare 'war' on them.
- rosege 7y ago
  I didnt get that from the article. Actually I just saw someone on FB posting this doomism so the article seemed quite timely. This person was previously a denialist but is now writing things like: do u have Air-conditioning in your house? Do you use it? Do you drink out of plastic bottles? If the answer is yes and you feed into this ... then fix help fix our planet and stop ... IMMEDIATELY. Cause if you dont, then you're simply talking out ur ass. I remember listening to this 30+ years ago when all this started. The reality is simple, stop living this modern disposable life. Has anyone changed? Hell no, we've gotten worse! So if ppl stop talking about this crap and actually did something about it, well it wouldn't be complete bullshit spouted by a bunch of hypocrites.

14 points by headalgorithm 7y ago

Now this is excellent content for HN! /s Flagged.

“First of all, there is an attempt being made by them to deflect attention away from finding policy solutions to global warming towards promoting individual behaviour changes that affect people’s diets, travel choices and other personal behaviour,” for those climate change denialists who are also american right wing protestant christians, this is an incredibly easy rhetorical shift to make. An obsessive focus on personal piety has long been an effective way to neuter policy action at a societal level. If you think “sin” is about “me personally swearing or having lustful thoughts”, it’s very very easy to forget that “sin” is about, oh, enthusiastically depriving an entire class of people fundamental human rights for several hundred years. Guilt-tripping people into eating less meat while enthusiastically funding coal mines is the same tune, so i wouldn’t be toooo surprised to see that idea crop up a bunch. Oh joy.

insickness 7y ago

In other words, anyone who takes an approach to climate change that I don't like will be labeled a climate change denier. Heck, let's just declare 'war' on them.

rosege 7y ago
I didnt get that from the article. Actually I just saw someone on FB posting this doomism so the article seemed quite timely. This person was previously a denialist but is now writing things like: do u have Air-conditioning in your house? Do you use it? Do you drink out of plastic bottles? If the answer is yes and you feed into this ... then fix help fix our planet and stop ... IMMEDIATELY. Cause if you dont, then you're simply talking out ur ass. I remember listening to this 30+ years ago when all this started. The reality is simple, stop living this modern disposable life. Has anyone changed? Hell no, we've gotten worse! So if ppl stop talking about this crap and actually did something about it, well it wouldn't be complete bullshit spouted by a bunch of hypocrites.