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It astounds me how people who are otherwise intelligent and who understand the scientific method don't believe in anthropogenic climate change. It doesn't fill
by minikites 6y ago
It astounds me how people who are otherwise intelligent and who understand the scientific method don't believe in anthropogenic climate change. It doesn't fill me with a lot of hope for the future, since we can't begin to work on this problem at the scale we need if so many of us don't think there even is a problem to begin with.
- godmode2019 6y ago'intelligent' people question everything. Lay people accept information without question.
- elif 6y agoIntelligence can better be described as finding the right middle, rather than adhere to either of your hyperbolic extremes. "questioning everything" is to forego basic levels of knowledge upon which higher levels of understanding must be built.
- triceratops 6y agoAnd yet the people who question climate change never question why so many people want to believe (and others to believe) it's not real.
- mistermann 6y agoI'm one such person, and I am rather fascinated with the topic of belief formation in general.