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And @NaomiOreskes has written extensively about Nierenberg in *Merchants of Doubt*. Her article about him is here: jstor.org/stable/10.1525…
10/n
And tragically this is just one moment out of an entire article that obscures the full truth about United States climate politics over the last forty years.
11/n
It's absurd to suggest that these elite white men who denied climate change epitomize “human nature.”
12/n
14/n
It's not me, and it's not the vast majority of American voters desperate for governments to do something about climate change.
climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/p…
15/n
We can still save billions of lives if we act to decarbonize NOW.
16/n
Without that truth, your journalism carries water for those same climate deniers in the service of profit & death.
/fin