Originally posted by klaus54
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Binga Dinga!
I've taught environmental studies courses with the tact of addressing the climate change issue with positive suggestions that could (possibly) mitigate CC (to what degree -- as it were -- I have no idea).
It's SO easy to teach students ideas that are necessary in the long run anyway. But they and I bristle at the gloom 'n doom approach, what Cowboy calls the "repent or burn in hell" rhetoric.
And the ALARMIST approach, like most of the Left's nonsense, is clearly incendiary spew to effect political divisiveness. Democrats smart, Republicans dumb.
The epistemology is so much like the Fundy Atheists referring to themselves as "Brights" and using the strawman of Fundy Christianity and Islam to push a false dichotomy.
I used to cringe when a loudmouth agnostic and VERY politically liberal professor bellowing in the lecture hall about "two minute warnings."
Ugh. All the most leftist students tuned him out, and I had to spend most of the discussion sessions presenting a balance of facts which to an uninformed biased observer made me sound like the most dreaded of all heretics, the DENIALIST!
I've taught environmental studies courses with the tact of addressing the climate change issue with positive suggestions that could (possibly) mitigate CC (to what degree -- as it were -- I have no idea).
It's SO easy to teach students ideas that are necessary in the long run anyway. But they and I bristle at the gloom 'n doom approach, what Cowboy calls the "repent or burn in hell" rhetoric.
And the ALARMIST approach, like most of the Left's nonsense, is clearly incendiary spew to effect political divisiveness. Democrats smart, Republicans dumb.
The epistemology is so much like the Fundy Atheists referring to themselves as "Brights" and using the strawman of Fundy Christianity and Islam to push a false dichotomy.
I used to cringe when a loudmouth agnostic and VERY politically liberal professor bellowing in the lecture hall about "two minute warnings."
Ugh. All the most leftist students tuned him out, and I had to spend most of the discussion sessions presenting a balance of facts which to an uninformed biased observer made me sound like the most dreaded of all heretics, the DENIALIST!
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