Climate Change resistance seems to be all about a political agenda that intends to create inaction. "Conservatives" and Repubs (mostly) are always blocking movement toward anything they think disrupts the status quo (ie: threatens their positions of power). There may be some legitimate reasons for it - eg: the economic disruptions of moving away from oil will likely be pretty major, and the trouble we can't predict is always what hurts the most.
While I can understand the reasoning, I dislike intensely the conflict that arises from the way people go about trying to put their policies into effect. The tactic is to paint the AGW proponents as being in service of a Leftist Political slant intent on destroying capitalism, which is of course always portrayed as being "the very essence of all things American".
"Lefties" often do the same kind of painting, but right now, I think the view from "The Left" is more accurate. My assessment of the ebb and flow of political sensibility is that we're shifting to the left again. It may well be that the way to "save capitalism" is to take it away from the assholes who claim to be its defenders.
In the case of AGW, the really odd thing for me is that what's driving the shift in sensibility is an adherence to the traditions of science, and that's forcing the opposition to attack the facts themselves, and to defend a position based on uninformed / misinformed / disinformed disbelief.
So we end up arguing about the process instead of debating solutions for the real problems.
Some interesting stuff over at Little Green Footballs.
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