Thanks Melanie, for this excellent and thorough round up. It's really important to be reminded of this. You're right that there are some issues unique to the US, but which I think are warnings for the rest of the world. I wrote last year in the piece linked below:
"In highly individualistic societies, including most Western countries, but especially the United States, politicians, corporations, and others have weaponized our lizard brains against us. They have done this by taking advantage of our fixation on personal freedom and property rights to portray solutions to societal problems as threats to liberty so that our lizard brain reacts. This is how we surrender wetland protections to personal property rights; sacrifice schoolchildren to gun rights; “other” people and take away their rights, forgetting that those are our rights too. Masks, vaccines, gas stoves, I could go on. Seat belts, unleaded gas, and cigarette restrictions wouldn’t stand a chance today."
An excellent summary, thank you very much for putting it together. To put this is a New Zealand context, in last October's national election campaign as the Green Party candidate for Whangarei, I was the only one to talk about climate change and the policies we had to tackle it. So as far as the other parties' candidates were concerned, climate change and its effects was still barely worth a mention - how incredibly sad and sick is that, in a year where as a country we were smashed by Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland floods causing an estimated $18 000 000 000 (billion) of damage, loss of life, loss of livelihoods, loss of homes, etc. Sorry, National did mention climate change in the form of promising to raid $2 000 000 000 (billion) from the Climate Emergency Response Fund and gift it as tax cuts to New Zealand's richest voters. And Act pledged to get rid of all legislation and policies that tackled climate change. 🙁
Thanks for this update on climate denial, Melanie. You’ve included some of the best voices—Naomi Oreskes and Michael Mann—who are identifying the tactics of the well-financed climate denial industry.
What a great roundup Melanie. So many links and videos. I have marked this one for follow up to learn more. My sense is fear tactics are what all sides in an argument often engage in. Modeling climate and making it predictive improves continuously. I think it is likely predictions of only two years ago probably haven't aged well. People want certainty and the best we can do is assess risk.
Thanks Melanie, for this excellent and thorough round up. It's really important to be reminded of this. You're right that there are some issues unique to the US, but which I think are warnings for the rest of the world. I wrote last year in the piece linked below:
"In highly individualistic societies, including most Western countries, but especially the United States, politicians, corporations, and others have weaponized our lizard brains against us. They have done this by taking advantage of our fixation on personal freedom and property rights to portray solutions to societal problems as threats to liberty so that our lizard brain reacts. This is how we surrender wetland protections to personal property rights; sacrifice schoolchildren to gun rights; “other” people and take away their rights, forgetting that those are our rights too. Masks, vaccines, gas stoves, I could go on. Seat belts, unleaded gas, and cigarette restrictions wouldn’t stand a chance today."
https://johnlovie.substack.com/p/denial-and-the-lizard-brain
An excellent summary, thank you very much for putting it together. To put this is a New Zealand context, in last October's national election campaign as the Green Party candidate for Whangarei, I was the only one to talk about climate change and the policies we had to tackle it. So as far as the other parties' candidates were concerned, climate change and its effects was still barely worth a mention - how incredibly sad and sick is that, in a year where as a country we were smashed by Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland floods causing an estimated $18 000 000 000 (billion) of damage, loss of life, loss of livelihoods, loss of homes, etc. Sorry, National did mention climate change in the form of promising to raid $2 000 000 000 (billion) from the Climate Emergency Response Fund and gift it as tax cuts to New Zealand's richest voters. And Act pledged to get rid of all legislation and policies that tackled climate change. 🙁
Thanks for this update on climate denial, Melanie. You’ve included some of the best voices—Naomi Oreskes and Michael Mann—who are identifying the tactics of the well-financed climate denial industry.
What a great roundup Melanie. So many links and videos. I have marked this one for follow up to learn more. My sense is fear tactics are what all sides in an argument often engage in. Modeling climate and making it predictive improves continuously. I think it is likely predictions of only two years ago probably haven't aged well. People want certainty and the best we can do is assess risk.
This is a helpful list I'm saving! Thank you.