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Are there really that many people who think climate change isn't happening or isn't caused by those factors? That sounds like a strawman.
by lopmotr 7y ago
Are there really that many people who think climate change isn't happening or isn't caused by those factors? That sounds like a strawman.
- hanniabu 7y agoThere are definitely a lot. If you haven't experienced this personally then you must live in a heavily liberal area.
- lopmotr 7y agoI'm sure there are some extreme people. But when I look at right-wing TV and journalism, I don't see climate change denial, nor human-causing-it denial. Instead, I see denial of the severity of the uncertain effects, criticism of the exaggerations of activists and criticism of the proposed policies around it. I've met people who would likely be called deniers because they say things like "it's not going to affect me or my kids, so I don't care". I think this attitude of accepting it but not being worried about it is extremely common and also commonly confused with denialism.
- tropo 7y agoI'm willing to pretend, if that it what it takes to stop the "fixes" from being applied. I'm not a fan of destroying the economy, especially if other countries get a less-restricted situation that lets them climb past us in the GDP-per-capita ranking. We will learn to deal with any climate changes that may happen.