The reality of human created climate change will not be accepted by pretty much everyone I've met on the right and even some on the left.
I recently had the joyful experience of being around a large group of local business leaders at play and drunk off their asses. The topic had been aroused by discussing record snowfalls from years past and how it never even comes close anymore. I brought up how the local flora & fauna have been changing with the loss of rainfall, shortened seasons, higher temperatures etc. I mentioned how it was unfortunate we had created this mess and looked to have no plans of not only slowing down, taking a step back and realizing the enormity of what we are accomplishing but charging full steam ahead into assured loss of the landscape we were walking on.
Everything had been fine up to that point. Once I breached that forbidden topic I was apparently slightly blacklisted. I was informed that this was just a cyclical pattern and that in a few years the glorious weather of yesterday would be returning in full regalia.
And that was it. Out of large group of these guys not one broached the possibility it was us possibly contributing to it or even hinted at a defense of my statement. I suppose it would have been a bad career move if they did think for themselves momentarily.
But yeah, hard to accept it for them. I suppose when you have a spent a lifetime of working, investing, expanding, profiting and congratulating yourself for creating the very things now known responsible and causing the coming horrible suffering of billions isn't pleasant. Not when your the man. The mover and shaker. The pillar of the business community who works hard and plays harder and knows his legacy will be that of a hard nosed developer who loved his family and not as an ignorant, selfish man who knowingly squandered the gifts of this world in exchange for a little money.
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