It will take years, maybe even decades, but climate change (CC) will gradually force the GOP to stop lying about science. They could had have healthy debates on what should be done about CC, but so far, lying is the easiest (& sleaziest) way to fool the masses and win votes. Because they lack the data and know it, they can't even agree o…
It will take years, maybe even decades, but climate change (CC) will gradually force the GOP to stop lying about science. They could had have healthy debates on what should be done about CC, but so far, lying is the easiest (& sleaziest) way to fool the masses and win votes. Because they lack the data and know it, they can't even agree on how to lie, (some insist there's no global warming at all, others concede there is but insist it's not human caused). But that's not yet a problem given science illiteracy, which is disproportionately high among GOP voters. GOP politicians have been lying about science for decades, starting with evolution, where peddling irrational denial is a cheap way to win evangelical votes. There too, they know they lack the evidence, so they learned to say as little possible about the "better explanation," counting on voters to assume it's one of the mutually-contradictory, long-debunked literal interpretations of Genesis. When the refutations become too hard for them to address, they invariably fall back on baseless accusations of "conspiracy" of scientists. Musk is the interesting one. He has long admitted human-caused CC, AND the urgency to combat it. Now that he sold out to the MAGA cult, will he backpedal and start lying? Stay tuned.
It will take years, maybe even decades, but climate change (CC) will gradually force the GOP to stop lying about science. They could had have healthy debates on what should be done about CC, but so far, lying is the easiest (& sleaziest) way to fool the masses and win votes. Because they lack the data and know it, they can't even agree on how to lie, (some insist there's no global warming at all, others concede there is but insist it's not human caused). But that's not yet a problem given science illiteracy, which is disproportionately high among GOP voters. GOP politicians have been lying about science for decades, starting with evolution, where peddling irrational denial is a cheap way to win evangelical votes. There too, they know they lack the evidence, so they learned to say as little possible about the "better explanation," counting on voters to assume it's one of the mutually-contradictory, long-debunked literal interpretations of Genesis. When the refutations become too hard for them to address, they invariably fall back on baseless accusations of "conspiracy" of scientists. Musk is the interesting one. He has long admitted human-caused CC, AND the urgency to combat it. Now that he sold out to the MAGA cult, will he backpedal and start lying? Stay tuned.