But... But... Doctors would say something if the vax was dangerous!
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I don’t know what that means.
Suppose that somebody with a PhD who has been studying a subject for over a decade as a full time job actually does understand the climate better than you do. Just imagine it for the sake of this example.
And imagine that a better understanding of the climate, based on eight hours a day for a decade of studying the climate, actually did tend to lead them to a liberal conclusion on how to address climate change.
How would you ever know if you hadn’t also spent that much time studying the climate? How could you conclude that they’re brainwashed for CERTAIN, and that it wasn’t you who was lacking the information to come to the correct solution for the problem?
I appreciate your thoughtful response.
I would argue that the perpetual crisis might have something to do with certain peoples’ reluctance to accept the solution. You can’t refuse to participate in the solution and then lambast the solution for failing because you refused to cooperate.
I would absolutely agree that more onus than is necessary is placed on individuals, with respect the climate problems. Big companies are absolutely paying lip service by telling people to buy electric cars while they themselves are causing more problems than entire cities of people.
But at the end of the day, I think you’re conflating the “swamp solution” with the swamp taking ADVANTAGE of the solution.
Because, you know, they’re capitalists. And they are going to jump on a bandwagon if it makes them money, whether it’s the climate, LGBT rights, or whatever.
The swamp will align itself with whatever makes them a profit. If the smartest people on climate change say that we need to do something, and the swamp figures out how to monetize it, that doesn’t invalidate the solution any more than the UFC invalidates Trump’s platform.
I don’t disagree, to a point.
But we live in a capitalistic society. Solutions are hard to justify without a profit motive involved.
Socialists who want socialized healthcare will argue this to their dying breath. They have a solution, but without profit, nobody is interested.
Corporations have more power than they should. You and I will stand shoulder to shoulder on that.
But I think you’re discounting the independence and spirit of many scientists, who don’t take corporate paychecks. People who are absolutely happy to, say, publish studies that prove cigarettes cause cancer despite the industry power.
I know you think those people are on your side, but there are a remarkable scarcity of verifiably highly-credentialed people who think Trump is going to be reinstated, that the vaccines are a poison, and so forth. And I don’t think that’s because the industries have found a way to pay off the tens of millions of sciences and academics who disagree with Trump’s platform.
Because when they prevaricate with cheap tricks (e.g., Michael Mann & the Incredible Hockey Stick) it is de facto proof that they are liars---and liars violate the prime directive of science: Do not bear false witness.