I heard a section of that conversation and I always get turned off when the term, "denier" is used to describe someone's view on a particular topic (climate denial, science denial, etc...). Well-informed Pinker should know better than to use such labels. I also found it fascinating that they ridicule those who have strong belief on the …
I heard a section of that conversation and I always get turned off when the term, "denier" is used to describe someone's view on a particular topic (climate denial, science denial, etc...). Well-informed Pinker should know better than to use such labels. I also found it fascinating that they ridicule those who have strong belief on the topic while simultaneously spewing their climate change narrative. It's a bit too hypocritical for me.
I think you nailed it Amy. I always, always, look at what these elites do and compare it to what they say (e.g. Obama's house on Martha's Vineyard. And don't get me started on the mask issue). You would be very hard pressed to find a media, financial, or pop-culture elite who actually lived according to their mantra. I don't see these individuals vacationing locally, attempting to shrink their carbon footprint by driving versus flying, helping poor countries transition to more efficient fuels, etc... They are interested in making rules for the plebs so they can move around unobstructed.
George Carlin summed it up well when he said, "Besides, environmentalists don’t give a crap about the planet. They don’t care about the planet; not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live; their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me."
I heard a section of that conversation and I always get turned off when the term, "denier" is used to describe someone's view on a particular topic (climate denial, science denial, etc...). Well-informed Pinker should know better than to use such labels. I also found it fascinating that they ridicule those who have strong belief on the topic while simultaneously spewing their climate change narrative. It's a bit too hypocritical for me.
I think you nailed it Amy. I always, always, look at what these elites do and compare it to what they say (e.g. Obama's house on Martha's Vineyard. And don't get me started on the mask issue). You would be very hard pressed to find a media, financial, or pop-culture elite who actually lived according to their mantra. I don't see these individuals vacationing locally, attempting to shrink their carbon footprint by driving versus flying, helping poor countries transition to more efficient fuels, etc... They are interested in making rules for the plebs so they can move around unobstructed.
George Carlin summed it up well when he said, "Besides, environmentalists don’t give a crap about the planet. They don’t care about the planet; not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live; their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me."