Comments on: Thinking Rationally About Climate Change, at FTBConscience

By: Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 04:07:06 +0000

I don’t think that kind of irony is helpful. We’re not going to make major changes without including a whole lot more people. I had more thoughts on this, but the internet is a public place and that statement is easily misunderstood. However, I probably should just not have bothered …

By: alisonT

alisonT — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 03:26:33 +0000

Susan, I think Doug was being ironic.

By: Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 03:05:47 +0000

Doug Alder: You could start by not calling them “unwashed masses”. Treat them as better than their brainwashers, and they will be more likely to make the effort.

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:19:00 +0000

@Eric Ferguson maybe by becoming more aggressive and asking the public why they want to listen to someone who doesn’t want your kids/grandkids etc to have a life. Paint them as traitors to humanity and completely unamerican (or whatever country you are in) – i.o.w. turn their tactics back on them. The general public does not feed off of rationalism (unfortunately) and unless something drastic happens soon the deniers will go on winning the minds of the unwashed masses until it is too late to rein climate change in. Then there will be bloodshed in the streets when it finally sinks in.

By: Eric Ferguson

Eric Ferguson — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:58:09 +0000

The only question that really matters: how do we beat the deniers? Maybe more specifically, how do realists defeat the deniers’ money?