Since global warming "denials"
are also not based on science or fact, politically based motives is the most likely explanation. Specifically, protect the immediate profit potentials of exploitation and abuse of the environment, eschew new research and technologies to keep those profits maximized and properly funneled, accept your fate as a consumer, and let future generations piss up their own rope.
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Originally Posted by Drakonix
Especially trash the second amendment so that the populace (once they find out they have been screwed) can not fight back as the founding documents authorize.
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Jeez, and anyone who maintains our affect on the environment might be worth considering
get called "alarmists."
Apropos of most of the rest of the world's stereotyping, Americans represent about
7% of the planet's population, reaping a
full third of the resources consumed, producing
5 times the waste and seeming to give somewhat less than
half a fuck. What we'd really like is another layer of brightly colored packaging on our fast food so our fat kids can throw it out the window of our hummers with pride.
But seriously, I don't believe these denials, based as they seem to be on
nothing but a kind of misguided "anti-liberalism," actually deserve to be called "politically based motives" at all. In the big picture it's really just intellectual laziness, or a kind of mental tinnitus born of prolonged exposure to cognitive dissonance.
...well,
dissonance at least.