What were the odds that Galileo was right and the entire world was wrong?
You are falling for exactly the issue I highlighted. Both sides if this matter (deniers and zealots) have become cults. So now because “everyone says X” it is true.
One side believes X and the other Y.
Each side has people pumping the resonant messages for profit, be it political or financial. And nobody bothers to question them at all. In fact, if you dare question any of it (on either side) you have to be willing to accept being attacked at different levels. Precisely the kind of society we all want to live in. Right? She weighs as much as a duck! Burn the witch!
What’s sad is that reality is very easy to see —so long as a person is willing to leave cult thinking behind. Most don’t. It’s easier to get behind what a celebrity or politician says you should believe than to exercise critical thinking.
You're ignoring half my message. Certainly we need critical assessments, but whether the sun is centric or the earth (afaik the point galileo contested) isn't going to be life or death for millions. We don't need to gamble on that. We can gamble on cleaner cars being better for us with good confidence.
This is the second half of the first paragraph of my previous message:
> What are the odds that it does more harm to try to reduce emissions to keep a measurable quantity of gas in the atmosphere stable rather than raising it? Could keeping the atmosphere stable do more harm than if we all just assume it'll be fine and carry on filling it up with combustion products?
You are falling for exactly the issue I highlighted. Both sides if this matter (deniers and zealots) have become cults. So now because “everyone says X” it is true.
One side believes X and the other Y.
Each side has people pumping the resonant messages for profit, be it political or financial. And nobody bothers to question them at all. In fact, if you dare question any of it (on either side) you have to be willing to accept being attacked at different levels. Precisely the kind of society we all want to live in. Right? She weighs as much as a duck! Burn the witch!
What’s sad is that reality is very easy to see —so long as a person is willing to leave cult thinking behind. Most don’t. It’s easier to get behind what a celebrity or politician says you should believe than to exercise critical thinking.