Some Climate Change Deniers Have a Fabulous Command of the Language
Here’s another good reason that I wouldn’t last 10 minutes in politics: I just don’t have the required facility with the language. Who can compete on the podium with Ron Johnson (R-WI), who accuses the groups associated with climate change mitigation of “Environmental Jihad?”
That’s some seriously clever stuff. Most people would have said his position, i.e., climate change denial, is the more radical and extreme view, given the 97% of climate scientists who concur that anthropogenic global warming is a real and potentially catastrophic threat to our civilization. Apparently, Johnson’s thinking is simple: Label the enemy the extremist, before they hit you with it, and come up with the scariest, most defamatory name you possibly can. Again, that’s crafty stuff — and it’s totally out of my league.
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