Why is Climate Change such a hard sell?
Why climate change is such a hard sell - The Globe and Mail
Some excerpts from the article: - Why has the environment appear to have become another political lobby and why has it become mostly a left wing issue?
- Some of the great environmentalists in the last century were Republicans in U.S. politics and in many ways the underlying environmental idea is that we like to conserve things roughly the way they are. That’s a small C conservative value.
- The public debate should be about how much we want to spend now to protect people 50 to 100 years from now or how much we care about nature on a big scale. They are values in a central way that are not subject to science. Instead the debate is about whether the climate scientists are right
The comments after the article in the link are worth reading as well, a lot of discussion about the industry of doubt, and who drives the polarization of the issue
As an interesting aside, why is this even in the politics forum? - Why isn't it in a science forum? Why are we letting policiticians set the agenda here? And who gives a damn what Al Gore thinks? If he wants to make money out of climate change, does that mean that climate change is a myth? What happened to the scientific process?
Quick, I know you posted the first link as a laugh, but it is a perfect example of what happens when we give idiot journalists a platform. If we had real science education in our schools, people would read the links and laugh at the authors.
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