...said T.S. Eliot
Let's call denialism a form of delusion.
It is a self-protecting and understandable psychological reaction to the overwhelming stress of perceiving very bad, possibly bleak information. Information describing threats to our lives and future.
The human political reaction to climate destabilization must be swift and certainly will be painful. And no matter how much we sacrifice, we can only mitigate and adapt to warming - not fix it.
This is a horrible conclusion. No one wants this. We all prefer that it go away, we all want to put it out of mind. And we all have some degrees of denial - no one can absorb the stark truth and constantly hold it in our minds. The inevitable climate destabilization should be at the front of our thinking and should influence every decision in our day. It does not. Each of us is imperfect.
Some of us will always have tunnel vision preventing us from seeing the looming danger ahead.
We shoulder the added challenge to be polite and tolerant to those denialists while continuing to attack the problem. We should also be ruthless toward any professional PR denialist funded by carbon fuel industries.
Let's call denialism a form of delusion.
It is a self-protecting and understandable psychological reaction to the overwhelming stress of perceiving very bad, possibly bleak information. Information describing threats to our lives and future.
The human political reaction to climate destabilization must be swift and certainly will be painful. And no matter how much we sacrifice, we can only mitigate and adapt to warming - not fix it.
This is a horrible conclusion. No one wants this. We all prefer that it go away, we all want to put it out of mind. And we all have some degrees of denial - no one can absorb the stark truth and constantly hold it in our minds. The inevitable climate destabilization should be at the front of our thinking and should influence every decision in our day. It does not. Each of us is imperfect.
Some of us will always have tunnel vision preventing us from seeing the looming danger ahead.
We shoulder the added challenge to be polite and tolerant to those denialists while continuing to attack the problem. We should also be ruthless toward any professional PR denialist funded by carbon fuel industries.
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