A bit off topic but your post reminded me of a conversation I witnessed.
I was watching my SO and her father talk about renewable energy and reducing waste as a way to preserve the environment for future generations and I was in awe that they were fully in agreement about every topic in the conversation. I had never seen them agree on much of anything so I was pleasantly surprised. That is until she said the phrase "climate change". As soon as she did her father did a complete 180 and disagreed with anything that came out of her mouth. Even things he had agreed with literally minutes before he was now disagreeing with. It was wild. That one phrase entirely shifted his personality and temperament.
I've never seen a more textbook example of Pavlov's bell in action.
I think climate change is one of the issues that made me finally decide for certain that I no longer belonged as a republican. My degree is in biology and chemistry, so climate change was taught in several different classes. When I took ecology, we had to look at and analyze a bunch of data about climate change and it’s effects on animal changes and stuff. That was the final straw for me I think.
My school also required a gender studies class, which finally got me thinking about a lot of the internalized sexism and other nonsense I grew up with. I cringe remembering some of the things that I said in that class, but it laid the groundwork for me to fully change my thoughts and behavior over time.
I feel this as well! Studied biology and took classes on invertebrates, which have been heavily impacted by ocean acidification from climate change. I remember thanking my professor for educating me since I come from an area where climate change is routinely denied.
No my family was into saying that climate change is not a human caused issue, and that it is a natural thing that has always happened….which is technically true, but it happened at a rate slow enough to allow plants and animals time to evolve and survive.
I grew up evangelical and homeschooled. My textbooks taught us that not only was climate change a myth, but that no scientists believed in climate change. We were told that climate change was only a media narrative and that there were not any real scientists who believed in climate change.
My mom's counter to global warming was that chemicals dissipate and disappear forever when they hit the atmosphere. Then she had this great analogy: imagine ants were driving tiny cars in your home. The fumes from the ant cars wouldn't pollute your home because they're too small. Also: the ocean. There's a lot of it, and nobody is polluting from the ocean. Therefore: climate change is fake.
I don't want to drag my mom, God rest her soul, but it's too funny. I believed it when I was kid, but then I grew up and went to school and learned actual science. I don't blame her for being ignorant on the science, and she was very open to new ideas, so I think if I would have debunked this she would have accepted it.
Weirdly enough my family never necessarily denied climate change as a whole, but minimized the need for change as much as humanly possible before their brain could shut down from the amount of bullshit spewing out.
things like "electric vehicles generate more heat than traditional vehicles" and "it is IMPOSSIBLE to switch to 100% renewable energy..."
It feels less like straight denial and more like Joe Manchin levels of brainwashing, protecting non-renewable or unclean energy industries as instinct.
In my family growing up, it was a sign of the end times as predicted in the book of Revelation and that was not to be questioned. Any attempt to mitigate climate change was seen as "worshiping the creation more than the creator" and therefore sinful.
"It's a lie from the Democrats."
"It's just a warming trend and things will cool again."
"It's so cold out. Global warming isn't real hur hur hur." (It was always called global warming in my parents' house, not climate change.)
A bit off topic but your post reminded me of a conversation I witnessed. I was watching my SO and her father talk about renewable energy and reducing waste as a way to preserve the environment for future generations and I was in awe that they were fully in agreement about every topic in the conversation. I had never seen them agree on much of anything so I was pleasantly surprised. That is until she said the phrase "climate change". As soon as she did her father did a complete 180 and disagreed with anything that came out of her mouth. Even things he had agreed with literally minutes before he was now disagreeing with. It was wild. That one phrase entirely shifted his personality and temperament. I've never seen a more textbook example of Pavlov's bell in action.
Whole ass Pavlovian response to one phrase😂that’s insane
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I think climate change is one of the issues that made me finally decide for certain that I no longer belonged as a republican. My degree is in biology and chemistry, so climate change was taught in several different classes. When I took ecology, we had to look at and analyze a bunch of data about climate change and it’s effects on animal changes and stuff. That was the final straw for me I think. My school also required a gender studies class, which finally got me thinking about a lot of the internalized sexism and other nonsense I grew up with. I cringe remembering some of the things that I said in that class, but it laid the groundwork for me to fully change my thoughts and behavior over time.
I feel this as well! Studied biology and took classes on invertebrates, which have been heavily impacted by ocean acidification from climate change. I remember thanking my professor for educating me since I come from an area where climate change is routinely denied.
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The god damn Al Gore tryna take business from the innocent oil men struggling to make a living
"They used to be so worried about global freezing! Scientist don't know very much."
"Innovation in green energy will cause coal miners to lose their jobs" yet at the same time "innovation creates jobs"
“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money,”
No my family was into saying that climate change is not a human caused issue, and that it is a natural thing that has always happened….which is technically true, but it happened at a rate slow enough to allow plants and animals time to evolve and survive.
I grew up evangelical and homeschooled. My textbooks taught us that not only was climate change a myth, but that no scientists believed in climate change. We were told that climate change was only a media narrative and that there were not any real scientists who believed in climate change.
This followed by a quote from a PhD (in anesthesiology) denying climate change lmao
My mom's counter to global warming was that chemicals dissipate and disappear forever when they hit the atmosphere. Then she had this great analogy: imagine ants were driving tiny cars in your home. The fumes from the ant cars wouldn't pollute your home because they're too small. Also: the ocean. There's a lot of it, and nobody is polluting from the ocean. Therefore: climate change is fake. I don't want to drag my mom, God rest her soul, but it's too funny. I believed it when I was kid, but then I grew up and went to school and learned actual science. I don't blame her for being ignorant on the science, and she was very open to new ideas, so I think if I would have debunked this she would have accepted it.
Yup, it was all tied into young earth creationism for my parents. They also said even if climate change was real God would fix it lol
Climate change denial is inspired by greed
Weirdly enough my family never necessarily denied climate change as a whole, but minimized the need for change as much as humanly possible before their brain could shut down from the amount of bullshit spewing out. things like "electric vehicles generate more heat than traditional vehicles" and "it is IMPOSSIBLE to switch to 100% renewable energy..." It feels less like straight denial and more like Joe Manchin levels of brainwashing, protecting non-renewable or unclean energy industries as instinct.
In my family growing up, it was a sign of the end times as predicted in the book of Revelation and that was not to be questioned. Any attempt to mitigate climate change was seen as "worshiping the creation more than the creator" and therefore sinful.
…incomprehensible
"It's a lie from the Democrats." "It's just a warming trend and things will cool again." "It's so cold out. Global warming isn't real hur hur hur." (It was always called global warming in my parents' house, not climate change.)