If you’re a conspiracy theorist who believes that only 3% of scientists are honest, you most certainly have never known anyone who plays a role in this discipline.
Now, you don’t have to be a QAnon/MAGA Trump supporter to harbor this type of BS in your mind. A few years ago, I attended a lecture at the University of California at Santa Barbara where the speaker asserted that science, especially climate science, is now a matter of politics, rather than science per se, and that the subject of climate change is being forced upon us by people with PhDs whose work is all about government funding that has no basis in reality.
That’s quite an accusation, given, as it was, without any evidence. The president of the university got a letter from me the next day.
If you happen to be an honest person who for some reason wants to maintain this asinine idea, do yourself a favor. Make a few phone calls, or send a few emails to the people who have dedicated their entire adult lives to understanding the phenomenon of global warming.
That’s what I did, about 15 years ago. Speaking with real scientists does wonders in cleansing oneself of ignorance.
It’s not as if the United States has held the moral high ground throughout its history, with its slavery, the butchering of the Indians, Jim Crow, the support of tyrannical dictatorships around the globe, and the corrupt suppression of the working class in favor of Trump’s billionaire donors.
Yet, it was very recently that the entire nation became a force for the destruction of civil society.
There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:
• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)
• Environmental collapse.
• Malicious use of AI.
• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.
• Nuclear war.
Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.
Obviously, James Carville has been wrong before, but it appears that he’s onto something here.
An ever-increasing number of Americans are realizing that Trump is criminally insane, and is leading this nation to destruction.
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