{"id":329,"date":"2004-06-02T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/reason-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2004-06-02T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T16:18:16","slug":"reason-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/reason-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason to Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several conservative columnists and cartoonists have made a point of attacking <\/p>\n

”The Day After Tomorrow”<\/i> as representing the liberal and unscientific view of Global Warming. Funny, I don’t recall <\/p>\n

conservative outrage over Armagedon<\/i> (asteroid threatens Earth) or Independence Day<\/i> (aliens attack) or Jurasic Park<\/i> <\/p>\n

(cloned dinosaurs) or myriad movies centering on volcanoes, tornados, giant insects, etc. Why does global warming in particular set off <\/p>\n

conservatives? Surely it has nothing to do with the fact that people get rich through fossil fuels, but not through asteroids, aliens or <\/p>\n

clones (yet)? It can’t simply be personal profit that motivates conservatives.<\/b> Heaven forfend.<\/p>\n

What the conservative view <\/p>\n

about global warming reminds me of, first, is the rejection of evolution through natural selection (aka Darwinism). Not only do <\/p>\n

conservatives deny the science behind evolution, they make up their own fake-science and demand equal time. In turn, I’m reminded of the <\/p>\n

trial of Galileo, sentenced for challenging the false view held by those with power. In this, I can’t quite see how conservatives <\/p>\n

”profit” from a flat-earth view, but then, what is conservatism (or what used to be called ”reactionary” before that became <\/p>\n

mainstream) than a resistance to change (aka progress)? <\/p>\n

What we desperately need is for the majority to be capable of reasoning <\/p>\n

beyond one movie or one book. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several conservative columnists and cartoonists have made a point of attacking ”The Day After Tomorrow” as representing the liberal and unscientific view of Global Warming. Funny, I don’t recall conservative outrage over Armagedon (asteroid threatens Earth) or Independence Day (aliens attack) or Jurasic Park (cloned dinosaurs) or myriad movies centering on volcanoes, tornados, giant insects, … Continue reading Reason to Believe<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}