We don't have a "culture" of science denialism. The majority of people in my country deny science to varying degrees and about different things, mostly for political reasons. Conservatives deny a bit more science than liberals do, and to be honest I think we need to be blaming the liberals at least a little for that one. Liberals have been basically marketing science as a liberal achievement, so of course conservatives wont listen to a lot of it and it is really stupid for liberals to be doing that. And liberals deny their own share of scientific truth. How about that totally rational fear of nuclear energy? Hell, a huge number of liberals under the age of 20 are fucking socialist, a belief that flies in the face of all modern empirical economic science. The zero sum game is literally the economic equivalent of creationism, and it is a false doctrine that is responsible for both redistributionism on the left as well as nativism/protectionism on the right. It doesn't matter what your political leanings are, no matter what role you believe the government should take in society, believing this kind of unscientific nonsense is stupid.
Denies climate science
Don't shoot the messenger.
Trump isn't an ivory tower elitist he's just on the bottom of the elite, or he was prior to winning the presidency. The ivory tower elitists are people like Obama who never felt shy about voicing their contempt for the ignorant masses of the working class.
> implies that all rich fucks are conservatives
Lol dude wake the fuck up.
>listen guys we're all going to be fucked if we don't phase out fossil fuels
>HURR DURR MY INCOME IM TOO RETARDED TO RETRAIN FOR ANOTHER WORKING CLASS JOB
> is liberal, believes that it is cruel to expect poor people to "just get a job".
> is liberal, thinks working people whose livelihood is built on oil should be able to adapt to harsh environmental regulations and carbon taxes.
This is the kind of sentiment that drives people away and makes them not want anything to do with what you're selling.
That aside a lot of people are too stupid to retrain for a new job. There are also a lot of towns and cities where there is exactly one real employer and if you live in that town or city you work at that employer your whole life and when they leave the town dies because the only other place to work is a Walmart. Even if they can just retrain and switch careers they're likely going to be taking a massive pay cut which is typically really hard on working class families.
There are a million reasons they don't want to lose their jobs and being told "guys X is gonna happen and you're all gonna lose your jobs but you're fucking stupid if you don't go along with this" isn't going to change any minds. I imagine the reason you see this kind of rhetoric so often in the left is because the majority of leftists have never actually had to deal with anyone from the working class or even had a real job themselves.
Mass lobotimization of anti-intellectuals for use as specialized material in prototypes of wetware CPU is what I would say if I didn't think about it a little more and realize that the material would be sub-par at best due to the anti-intellectuals naturally low intelligence.
>implying few degrees warmer causes any harm
>implying warmer climate is due humans
>implying CHINA doesn't make nearly all the emissions
>implying we westeners should suffer
>implying immigrants will not cause CO2 emissios
>implying higher CO2 wouldn't help agriculture
>implying vaccines cannot cause harm. Recently the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix had Mercury on it, causing proovenly many cases of narcolepsy
>You're mean, that's why no one listens to you
And this is why no one listens to you.
Even if such a fantasy of global warming does exist, it wouldn't even be a problem for us. Just a nicer summer.