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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
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When you read reports like this, think about the deep immorality and corruption of climate skeptics. I guess it would be OK to disbelieve the overwhelming consensus of scientists in good faith -- but that almost never happens 1/ nytimes.com/2018/11/23/cli…
Climate change denial is, in practice, almost entirely driven by motivated reasoning, not hard thinking; it's people who don't want to believe in an existential threat because responding to it would hurt their bottom line and/or cause trouble for their ideology 2/
So what kind of person demands that others ignore what could well be a civilization-ending problem because his profits, or his paychecks from fossil fuel interests, or his laissez-faire ideology are on the line? A really terrible -- I'm tempted to say evil -- person. 3/
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