Especially you members of the Cult of Climastrology. So says Oliver Burkeman
We’re all climate change deniers at heart
At yesterday’s summit in Bavaria, the G7 leading industrial nations agreed to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century. It’s easy to be cynical about these things, but these official goals really matter. And one big reason is this: in the absence of intergovernmental action, we are hopelessly ill-equipped to deal with this problem as individuals.
In fact, if a cabal of evil psychologists had gathered in a secret undersea base to concoct a crisis humanity would be hopelessly ill-equipped to address, they couldn’t have done better than climate change. We’ve evolved to respond more vigorously to threats that are immediate and easy to picture mentally, rather than those that are distant and abstract; we’re more sensitive to intentional threats from specific humans, rather than unintentional ones resulting from collective action; we’re terrible at making small sacrifices in the present to avoid vast ones in future; our attention is seized by phenomena that change daily, rather than those that ratchet up gradually over years.
And should it dawn on us that our behaviours don’t match our beliefs – that we’re not doing our bit to save the planet, even though we think we should – we find it far easier to adjust the belief (downgrading the importance of climate change) than the behaviour (flying less, having fewer children).
Got that? By failing to match your lives with your (supposed) belief sets, Warmists are really denying that they believe in climate change caused mostly/solely by the actions of Mankind.
Go back to the first paragraph, though, and notice the Progressive (nice fascist) doctrine: Government must be allowed the power to force citizens to comply with the Cult’s beliefs. Each and every day the Warmists expose their agenda, along with their hypocrisy.
