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Climate change denial was a corporate interest and priority which became a government interest and priority (for one party at least). The internet wasn't around

• roenxi 7y ago
  Climate change denialism is similar to climate change activism in that neither actually achieves very much politically. There have been countless protests and breathless professions that the world is about to end - emissions keep going up. Denialists huff and puff, but if the price of renewables drops below the price of fossil fuels they are going to disappear like snow in summer. We have a system in the modern economy where the if there is a substantially better option from a resource-use perspective it will be used. So far neither activists nor deniers have shown any ability to affect that system and the cheapest option is still being used. When a significantly cheaper option presents it will be used instead - again in complete defiance of whatever position people want to take on climate change. Moving away from CFCs was irrelevant to the general performance of the economy. Moving away from fossil fuels is anything but.
  • TaylorAlexander 7y ago
    I think climate change denialism has accomplished a lot. We still haven’t put a price on carbon emissions, even when it would have been prudent to do so 40 years ago.
  • wadkar 7y ago
    Which option is cheaper depends on how you tax/incentives the system. We tax cigarettes so that it becomes expensive and puts pressure on the system to reduce consumption (in addition to raising awareness etc. which is not the point here according to you) So the argument does not hold given we’ve ways to make things expensive/cheaper.