Global warming: the pyschology of denial

Average people do not have a say in this debate. Intelligent people do not have a say in this debate. Logic does not have a say in this debate. The inanimate object that we buy stuff with has the only say and it says, nothing is going to change until you stop worshipping me, fools.

It is easier to deny than to admit you are morally responsible. To admit that then binds you to action if you have a moral conscience. It would appear however that the Glenn Beck's of the world do not, therefore simply choose to make life easier for themselves. I say it is time to push them all aside and get on with the work at hand.

O man but sometimes it just feels so good to be angry at people who try to tell you things. I tell you if it's not the global-gay-hippy-warming conspiracy than its someone in your face trying to make you care about yourself or the world you live in. I almost can't take it anymore.

I think I'm going to go down to The Stone Hole and share these feelings with my drinking bodies and a dartboard.

What makes people deny the obvious damage we cause?!?!?
Greed, stupidity, selfishness, naive tendencies, fear, stubbornness, money, misinformation, hatred, et cetera. There is no shortage of reasons to deny this peril. And they're the same reasons that got us into this mess.
The biggest problem,... is that not enough people believe, not enough people are changing and not enough people are acting to make things better.

We can easily get rid of coal, use natural gas, and get rid of the environmental damage that strip mining causes. We can also get rid of the air pollution from burning coal. Natural gas is easier and much cheaper to move around---we'll save a lot of money. All we have to do is take out the coal grates and put in burners. And natural gas can generate electricity direcctly using diesel engines at the flip of a switch, much easier and more economical for baseload than coal when using wind. Coal can take several hours to fire up and start generating.

We can use solar thermal to heat buildings and water as a helper system. We can use solar power to free up a lot of natural gas.

We can run our vehicles on natural gas and biofuels with bi-fuel engine vehicles.
They will be able to do everything they do now---and no expensive, complicated batteries or electronics. And it will cost us 1/3 what it does to run them on petroleum. If drivers are not using natural gas to run their furnaces and water heaters because they are using solar thermal----they will be driving free from the solar power they are using in their homes.

The environment will benefit, consumers will benefit, and there will be a lot less need for government environmental laws and regulation, lower taxes.

And natural gas will generate more power with far less CO2 produced than coal or petroleum. Methane is 80% hydrogen by volume. It produces less than 1/2 the CO2 that coal does, and none of the smoke.

We can get rid of coal and petroleum, pay less for energy and save money on what we use and on taxes. And we can take care of global warming at the same time.

It seems to me like only an idiot would be against that.

What kind of idiot would be against that? Even without global warming at all, it still only makes good sense. The fact that it would pretty much do away with global warming is just an added bonus.

The problem continues to be here in the US. When I lived in Canada and the recycling programs started (many many years back), the efficiency of the people to actually help too much with the program, was creating a bottle neck for the recycling plants. I read that was the same in Europe. Even so many years back people were using their own bags for shopping that today in TO or Montreal is almost hard to get a plastic bag for anything.

However here in the US people still are unresponsive when it comes to use their own bags or totally recycle plastics and bottles, the programs run just about even, but for many its still a novelty and it shows. Some people I know believe that because they can see couple of birds in the lake or two catfishes in the water under clear skies, everything is fine and dandy.

All big coal&oil had to do was place the seeds of doubt in the millions of minds that have been cultured to depend on convenience and selfishness. While 82% of the entire scientific community and 97% of Climatologists agree that anthopogenic climate change is occurring and could lead to catastrophy, these deniers prefer to pride themselves on their own "intelligence".

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And the denier's science is funded by oil and coal money.

Greedy corporate clowns. That's the true reason this denial ever took place. I'm sure of it.
Even the people that cheerlead for them seem to have missed that vital point, they also seem to miss the fact that they are in fact cheerleading in the first place...

Interesting bunch of idiots they are.

"Ideological beliefs and peer beliefs" are singled out and rightly so. I've often said that folk believe whatever makes them feel good about themselves. It's easier when those comforting myths are reinforced by peers, drinking buddies and demagogues like Limbaugh and Hannity.

Money & Greed will do us all in someday , because Money makes you look the other way or makes you think it won't happen in my life time ,,,,THATS HOW MONEY MAKES YOU THINK !