{updated with some information regarding the interviewer and his for profit "think tank" 3/8/15}
Now I get to one of the architects and a Godfather of 'slander as a weapon for scientific persuasion' and profit, Dr. Richard Lindzen.
I submit this text-book example of why he deserves that honorific. I found it in one of Dr. Dessler's video shorts, though the original is from an interview at the Center for Industrial Progress' "Power Hour." This is only 2:20 minutes long, but it says plenty.
Now I get to one of the architects and a Godfather of 'slander as a weapon for scientific persuasion' and profit, Dr. Richard Lindzen.
I submit this text-book example of why he deserves that honorific. I found it in one of Dr. Dessler's video shorts, though the original is from an interview at the Center for Industrial Progress' "Power Hour." This is only 2:20 minutes long, but it says plenty.
Lindzen talks about environmentalists
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0:00 Lindzen: ... you're touching on something interesting, which is environmentalism, whatever it's nastiness and ugliness, it is largely an urban phenomena. And I think it really, really depends on people having no sense of what nature is at all.
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What an astoundingly hostile and ignorant thing to say.
"Environmentalism" is a term defining an attitude towards recognizing the biological webs that sustain our planet's life support system - also known as our biosphere.
It's not a people, nor a party - but Lindzen won't allow himself to recognize that. All he sees is enemies.
It's not a people, nor a party - but Lindzen won't allow himself to recognize that. All he sees is enemies.
Listen to Lindzen going straight for the jugular:
"environmentalism = nastiness and ugliness"
There's nothing rational about it, it's political theater and hate mongering for votes and profit, nothing more.
Consider for a moment what "Environmentalism" actually is:
