Climate Change Deniers: How They Think and How We Should Think About Them (a DUer wrote this)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/31/1152059/-Climate-Change-Deniers-How-They-Think-and-How-We-Should-Think-About-Them

By Nancy Meyer

Do you know a fanatically religious person? An alcoholic? A rabid nationalist (sometimes erroneously called a patriot)? A person with an addiction of any type? Do you yourself fit in one of these categories? Then you have a window into understanding the climate change deniers.

Last summer I heard an NPR story about the Ganges River in India. The story explained that since the Ganges has so long been the spiritual, cultural and economic nerve center of Indian society, it has naturally become very polluted. Face it, you just can't use a river for unregulated drinking, bathing, traveling, tourism, disposal of your dead, and especially dumping of your toxic waste (among many other things) and not have pollution.

But in India, the Ganges' polluted state is not a universally accepted truth. Far from arguing about how to clean it up, many Indians are still arguing about whether or not it is, in fact, polluted at all.

This is incredible: Imagine standing waist deep in putrid water as garbage floats by and insisting that the water is safe and clean enough for your child to drink. It is denial in its purest form.

FULL story at link.