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March 26, 2007
"The Great Global Warming Swindle"
I finally got around to watching this latest show piece of the radical rights climate change deniers. I have to say the oil companies sure got their money's worth out of this one!
Alright, if you were dim witted and uneducated it would have been their money's worth. Standard conservative style thinking, one exception makes a rule. I'm baffled how that works in the conservative mind. Basically there are a handful of scientists out there that can't accept the possibility that we are dooming ourselves. I have to admit that it's hard to accept, but you have to put all the science together and then you see the vision of where you're going. Psychology tells us that when faced with something so terrifying and seemingly inevitable, that some people just don't have the mental ability to accept it and take action to avoid it. These are the kind of people that end up on a train track seeing the train coming at them and just standing there transfixed by the horror of it all. This is how the conservative mind seems to work. They see the same horror that everyone else sees, but they just can't deal with it, so they drop into some altered reality and try to ignore it, which I guess if it were something like a train where the side effects of their poor decision making ability would be resolved very quickly, but in the case of something as complicated as global warming, they actually have the potential of making things worse for everyone. Intelligent people on the other hand can debate details of timing and time frames, but in the end they don't abandon reason and just pretend that it isn't happening at all. Conservatives instead get lost in the details and loose the vision of the future. If the train coming at you is blue or green really doesn't change the fact that it's still a train coming at you now does it? You still know to get off the tracks, a conservative screams after you, "you're wrong it's a green train, not blue at all" and then gets hit by the train itself, which in retrospect may have been true, but it didn't change the fact that it was a train at all.
Anyway, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" is a lot of that kind of thinking and the desperate grasping at straws that have become the hallmark of conservative "intellectual" thinking. I really love them bringing up of theories that have long since been proven to be based on bad data or poor science as "proof" that there is a vast conspiracy to make the world into a better place. I mean really that's the horror the conservatives are trying to protect us against...A sustainable existence. Living on only what we need, ending our lives of pointless consumerism, to be better more responsible people. Oh the horror!??? Once again the conservative movement proves it has nothing of value to add to the conversation about the future of the world.
Read more over a Real Climate.
Posted by Jamison at March 26, 2007 7:47 AM
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