Re:UK heatwave: Weather forecasters report unprecedented tro...
by jfengel on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:20PM
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What scares me is that these anti-science, anti-expert values are having negative effects right now. Climate change will remain a murky unpleasantness for most of my remaining life (~50 years), boiling many frogs before the real disasters become obvious, daily occurrences.
As I see it, it began with creationism, creating a base of concerted and deliberate ignorance. That perfected the tactics used in climate change denialism. At that point it was down to a science, and they created COVID antivax literally overnight. And that's killing people right now.
That anti-evolution stuff is still an active battle. In the US, only a bare majority accept evolution. Among the political party associated with climate denialism, it's only 33% accepting a science that became obvious well over a century ago. It's part of a constellation of just-plain-false beliefs; not mere differences of opinion but simply and objectively wrong.
It will only get worse. I see it coming to a head before climate change has really gotten going. I don't know what form it will take, but I expect it to be very, very bad.
As I see it, it began with creationism, creating a base of concerted and deliberate ignorance. That perfected the tactics used in climate change denialism. At that point it was down to a science, and they created COVID antivax literally overnight. And that's killing people right now.
That anti-evolution stuff is still an active battle. In the US, only a bare majority accept evolution. Among the political party associated with climate denialism, it's only 33% accepting a science that became obvious well over a century ago. It's part of a constellation of just-plain-false beliefs; not mere differences of opinion but simply and objectively wrong.
It will only get worse. I see it coming to a head before climate change has really gotten going. I don't know what form it will take, but I expect it to be very, very bad.