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America’s Environmental Groups Have Lost the Plot on Climate Change
- jfengel 5y agoIt's true, but it points up the way anti-science obstructionism has made ordinary disagreement impossible. The Audubon society has a legitimate point to make. They should be overruled, by popular democratic consent, but they should be able to make their point and be heard first. Instead, misinformation means that progress is only made when the environmental movement forces itself to be absolutely unified. Ordinary differences of opinion can't take place in the face of widely supported falsehoods about facts. Democracy is hardened against small amounts of misinformation for the same reason it's a tolerable way of resolving differences of opinion. But it is brittle when there is too much outright onslaught against basic information, supported by a large minority. I don't know what to tell them. I wish we could have ordinary democratic discussion of the best way to handle climate change. Instead we're still trying to convince a political majority that it's even a real thing.