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[–]FediNetizen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A good example is climate change. Ever since it became a major political issue in the 90s, the attacks on the science have usually come from the right. Even long after the evidence in favor of it had become overwhelming, you had people on the right denouncing it as some hippie conspiracy.

It is true that there are rich people trying to capitalize on it by lobbying for subsidies, funding for technologies that aren't cost efficient or that have limited scale, etc. It's also true that you have people on the left fighting against good solutions like nuclear because of hysteria about meltdowns.

Those are legitimate debate topics. However, the basic question of whether the burning of fossil fuels is putting more greenhouse gases into the air and strengthening the greenhouse effect, raising surface temperatures which leads to habitat destruction, loss of arable land, and sea level rise, is pretty well settled at this point.

As I recall, you yourself claimed the science was far from settled not too long ago. You hold this belief not because it's what the scientists are telling you, but because it's what the pundits on the right working for corporations & the rich have been telling you.