Sure part of it is blatant ignorance but somewhere in there I'd imagine denial is a kind of defense mechanism against reality, against looking deeper into how capitalism, the thing they were told their entire lives is holy, is actually dooming them.
There’s a lot of horror in realizing that cars are bad. Accept that climate change is happening, and then realize that there’s nothing a single person can do to stop it. All you’re usually left with is angst
I think for a lot of these people it's easier to simply dismiss it as a Chinese hoax and continue ignoring it. But, quickly, it's going to become impossible to ignore any longer.
People will deny it 100 years from now. Believing something afactual right now won’t stop people from believing the same thing later, just like a conspiracy theory.
And I think there quite a few people who don’t believe in climate change, while also not believing that it’s China’s fault
Sure part of it is blatant ignorance but somewhere in there I'd imagine denial is a kind of defense mechanism against reality, against looking deeper into how capitalism, the thing they were told their entire lives is holy, is actually dooming them.
There’s a lot of horror in realizing that cars are bad. Accept that climate change is happening, and then realize that there’s nothing a single person can do to stop it. All you’re usually left with is angst
I think for a lot of these people it's easier to simply dismiss it as a Chinese hoax and continue ignoring it. But, quickly, it's going to become impossible to ignore any longer.
People will deny it 100 years from now. Believing something afactual right now won’t stop people from believing the same thing later, just like a conspiracy theory.
And I think there quite a few people who don’t believe in climate change, while also not believing that it’s China’s fault