Something similar motivates magical thinking on other end: that we can solve the problem cheaply, in harmony with nature, by deploying windmills and solar panels.
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I don't know anyone who thinks it'll be cheap!
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There is this, of course:http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15060 …
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Climate change denial is synchronous with a belief that limitless growth/greed are unequivocally good. People who fundamentally believe humanity is above nature find the capability of our self-destruction impossible to admit or stomach. Because it's the ultimate human fuckup.
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In a sense, CC denialists are in denial about humanity's propensity for evil. They're also making a long-term life bet that either: a) Everything will blow over/tech will solve it b) They'll be dead for the worst of it The former is rooted in ignorance, the latter in greed.
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It's both. The people want the illusion of control; the fossil fuel companies provide the talking points you can repeat to reassure yourself.
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Still, >$100 trillion in stranded assets is nothing to sneeze at.
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You yourself have written about elites buying consensus in economics. Climate denial became a $900mil annual business, and this is well documented. Before, more than 70% of Americans understood CC, and now it's close to half. This is class war.
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Agree. Climate-change denialism is mostly ego-driven signaling of tribal identity. Conservatives' political identities revolve around fear, or at least use fear as self-justification.
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Uh also about tribal identity
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I think both of those and likely also those who fear the deniers. People who know the climate is collapsing but fear (at least as much) those who, in their eyes, run the world and provide the stability of that world—large corporations and our capitalistic nation states.
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I recall seeing a piece in IIRC the national review claiming that climate change would have positive effects. So either it's not real, or it is real but would be good. So it doesn't matter, what matters is those darn liberals are wrong.
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You sure you’re not projecting your own control sentiments onto the whole country btw?
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Climate change resilience might be a good frame for everything we to do, even carbon reduction
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Ah yes, if only we could break through to the GOP Congress, President, and Supreme Court with [checks notes] accurate information.
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A simpler hypothesis, given how climate change denial has aligned politically, is that the denialists know who will be worst affected and they're OK with it. Eager, even.
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IOW incompetence is not a better prior than malice after there is already abundant evidence for malice.
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It's absolutely NOT about avoiding fear. It's about avoiding feeling dumb, or less-than. It's the single most pronounced & most widespread form of anti-eltism/-intellectualism on display in the US today. Climate denial is a "fuck you" to egg-heads who think they know better.
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Saying it's about fear implies that climate deniers trust scientists in their hearts but cloak their feelings to shield themselves from fear/discomfort. But, they *don't care* if the scientists are right or wrong. They care that the scientists *think* they're so right.
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People always scoff at climate deniers by loling about the ludicrousness of conspiracy theories about why climate scientists would be making it all up, but those people miss the point. Conspiracy theories work backwards, constructing a means to an end, and they laugh at the means
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What's the end climate deniers are constructing a means to? *They don't trust scientists in the first place*. And they hate the idea of scientists telling them what to do/ how to live. Scientists are just another sect of elitists spitting on them from the ivory tower.
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As a grad student, all I can say is ... If only they knew what a real scientists life was like...

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