Reddit reviews Fear: The History of a Political Idea

Thank you. A lot of people just resort to insults and Gish Gallop in the global warming argument.
I truly am not worried about the consequences of global climate change. Some things will be bad and some things will be good. But change is inevitable, to me it makes a lot more sense to adapt to your environment instead of trying to change it.

When you got educated people like Stephen Hawking spewing absolute drivel that the Earth could turn in to Venus or insanity like reporters wanting to criminalize dissenting ideas you realize that they are desperate to advance their agenda.

Climate change has been politicized in order to push an agenda.

Now before you say 'you are talking conspiracy, it can't be a conspiracy because too many people would have to be in on it', think about this.

That is the beauty of it, it is not some globally coordinated conspiracy, There is NO ONE at the top of this conspiracy.

The scientists fudge the data and focus on the worse possible interpretations of the data because that is what keeps the grant money flowing.

The politicians focus on the negatives and scare tactics because it is very easy to manipulate people with fear. This insures a frightened voting block that they can count on to deliver them votes. Fear means votes


The media focuses on the worse possible outcome because sensationalism sells. Have you ever heard the news term "If it bleeds it Leads"?


And finally the globalists see it as an excellent way to redistribute wealth from the rich countries to the poorer ones, a form of world socialism.

No, all of these groups did not get together and conspire to invent a global warming hoax.

But each and every one of the groups above see global climate change as a means to an end. And people just gobble it up while failing to realize that there have always been doomsday prophets who have predicted the end of the world.

The difference is today's instant global communications has given them a voice that they would not have had a hundred years ago.

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You asked for opposing viewpoints in another post, I cant really help with that, but if you're interested in non-leftist theory, I'd recommend reading Corey Robin's two books and following him on fb/twitter - he is a leftist who really dug into conservative philosophy and usually has interesting takes.