Climate Warming Denial Survives Because No Political Will To Do Anything About It.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The reason that climate warming denial persists is that the American voter does not have the political will to actually do anything substantial about it. That means tossing all the politicians who support denial out or running them off the public stage by ridicule if necessary. It also means a substantial change in lifestyle.

Most white guys still want their huge "big butt" trucks, most Americans don't want to pay taxes to invest in public transportation and too many Americans are just plain lazy and ignorant. And they "exceptionally" do not believe it will effect them. It's their children and grandchildren who will have to deal with them. So let them.

[daleanime]

1. kick, kick, kick.....

[randome]

2. It's the same mindset that prevents us paying attention to infrastructure problems.

Both are such slow-moving disasters that it's easy to kick the can down the road and hope the catastrophe occurs on the next guy's watch.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[99Forever]

3. Tho I agree with your basic premise...

... you really didn't need to include the broadbrush insults to make your point. It really detracts from the message.

[mmonk]

4. And of course, the money in denial is good.

[FLPanhandle]

5. IMHO, Climate change denial is dimishing, but agreement on what to do is still far away

Except for the loons on the far right, most people have now agree that the Earth is warming.

The key question is what political solution can congress agree upon?

Cap & Trade was a bad idea, and I was always against it. It turned a debate about climate change into a money for less developed countries solution that politically was DOA.

Taxes on dirty fuel use to fund US manufactuered green energy projects (no Chinese made solar panels allowed), would have kept dollars in this country and funeded US jobs.