Congrats to all who continue with patient polite efforts to deal with the deluded victims of Climate Denier Syndrome..
Of course below the surface this has nothing to do with science or rationality, the deniers have triumphed by exploiting the reactionary feelings of men who see themselves deprived of their privileges, largely illusory, gained by capitalist corporations stripping the planet.
It’s important to understand and cut the roots of Climate Denier Syndrome which has run rife through US society and politicians
It’s hysteria, or maybe ‘testeria’, like McCarthyism, the red scare, used
cynically to further exploit people.
There’s a direct relation between right wing politics and Denier Syndrome.. I quote George Monbiot: ”It’s the same story everywhere. At a senatorial hustings in New Hampshire last week, all six Republican candidates denied that man-made climate change is taking place(9). Judging by its recent antics in the Senate and by primary campaigns all over the country, the Republican party appears to be heading towards a unanimous rejection of the science. The ultra-neoliberal Czech president Vaclav Klaus asserts that “global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so.”(10) The hard-right UK Independence Party may soon be led by Lord Monckton(11), the craziest man in British politics, who claims that action on climate change is a conspiracy to create a communist world government(12). The further to the right you travel, the more likely you are to insist that man-made climate change isn’t happening. Denial has nothing to do with science and everything to do with politics.” http://www.monbiot.com/2010/08/23/right-and-wrong/
Like the Tea party, Denier Syndrome is sponsored and fomented by the funds, personnel, internet bots and lunatic greed of US corporate power. But this doesn’t explain why the virus has been so violent and insidious. Unsurprisingly only in the 1st world does anyone deny climate science… sooner deny the light comes on when you connect the wires, it’s great that people challenge scientific consensus, but not if it’s just promoting a bunch of obvious lies by sheer quantity of internet repetition .
Patient firm explanation is the only advice, plus exposure of mental and physical intimidation, death threats, etc.
We urgently need a cure for the rampant plague of Climate Denier Syndrome.. we may be already reaching a ‘no way back’ tipping point.
What a pity that our one chance to save a future for our children is being squandered by the understandable knee jerk destruction by a minority of ‘testerical’ white north American males.
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