Here's my worry. Studies indicate that people who are afraid become more right-wing, even exterminationist. No serious climate model suggests that humans, globally, will not become more and more afraid in coming years. Those two paragraphs, in combination, say we're fucked.
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Outside the US, climate denial is not strongly associated to the right: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1023024326927245312 … So your worry may well be wrong.
I've no doubt Al Gore's work on climate was genuine and well intentioned. But I sometimes wonder if it backfired by contributing to climate becoming a partisan issue in the US.
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You've helped me understand militant atheism. Their greatest fear seems to be that religious extremism will exterminate us all in a blinding nuclear flash, long before the slow cooker of global warming sizzles us to a crisp.
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