Chemtrails by MagikUnicorn

Bryce • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Jun 07, 2017

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CHEMTRAILS From chemtrails to climate denial But what interests me is the connection between climate change denial and belief in chemtrails. Why do so many people accept a theory for which there is no scientific evidence while rejecting a serious and potentially catastrophic phenomenon that can be easily observed and for which overwhelming evidence has been building for decades? To begin, climate change denial and chemtrails theories are often conspiracy-based. A study by researchers at the University of Western Australia found “endorsement of a cluster of conspiracy theories … predicts rejection of climate science as well as the rejection of other scientific findings.” Many deniers see climate change as a massive plot or hoax perpetrated by the world’s scientists and scientific institutions, governments, the UN, environmentalists and sinister forces to create a socialist world government or something. Not all go to such extremes. Some accept climate change is occurring but deny humans are responsible. Still, it doesn’t seem rational to deny something so undeniable! In a Bloomberg article, author and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein points to three psychological barriers to accepting climate change that may also help explain why it’s easier for people to believe in chemtrails: People look to readily available examples when assessing danger, focus “on risks or hazards that have an identifiable perpetrator”, and pay more attention to immediate threats than long-term ones. Researchers Ezra Markowitz and Azim Shariff of the University of Oregon Psychology and Environmental Studies departments add a few more, including that human-caused climate change “provokes self-defensive biases” and its politicization “fosters ideological polarization.” People who subscribe to unbelievable conspiracy theories may feel helpless, so they see themselves as victims of powerful forces – or as heroes standing up to those forces. Whether it’s to deny real problems or promulgate imaginary ones, it helps reinforce a worldview that is distrustful of governments, media, scientists and shadowy cabals variously referred to as banksters, global elites, the Illuminati or the New World Order. The problem is that science denial is, in the case of chemtrails, a wacky distraction and, in the case of climate change denial, a barrier to addressing an urgent, critical problem. Science is rarely 100 per cent certain, but it’s the best tool we have for coming to terms with our actions and their consequences, and for finding solutions to problems. The science is clear: human-caused climate change is the most pressing threat to humanity, and we must work to resolve it. We don’t have time for debunked conspiracy theories. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Communications Manager Ian Hanington.

Comments (19)

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BryceHoro

1:44AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Nice depiction of the subject matter. People believe what they want to believe. There's still quite a lot believing the Earth is a flat disk and these believers live in the so-called developed world and went to school once. But then, we all are constantly bombarded by fake news, advertising promising the paradise if we buy their product, scientists omitting certain data to prove their findings, and so on. In all honesty, it is not always simple to know which is true and which is fraud. With all our education, we just can't be experts of everything.

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rayag

3:10AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Always very special !!!

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Jean_C

4:00AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Un image superbe!

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Leije

4:09AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Superbe !

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DukeNukem2005

5:27AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Very nice!

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giulband

6:25AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Awesome !!!!

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jmb007

7:13AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

bien

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Faemike55

8:36AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Very good narrative. unfortunately, I know a few people who actually believe that the ChemTrails are a government conspiracy to dumb down the world population - after seeing the last election, he may actually be right.....

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tallpindo

10:18AM | Wed, 07 June 2017

I myself am a Physicist and I know it is the Chemists and the Construction people who have messed up the building of nuclear power plants and the disposal of waste. Meltdown is a term reserved for children's behaviors. In the real world I parked my car in 1987 and no longer have a driver's license. Any time I am in a car it is a candidate for the car pool lane. I did my homework in 1973 and know that the number one use of energy in the United States is food processing. (This could use updating.) Coal will last 500 years and even longer now that we have closed the mines. Every single pickup truck in the United States is now over the 6000 pound vocational exemption limit on automobile emissions and fuel economy. So I take a four mile walk every morning or every 3 days I run (??)) ha-ha I trot, ? I pace? I watch younger folks gliding and dogs pulling. Green house gases? Perfect storms? All hands on deck? Sick and Tired? My sister is the former Chemistry teacher. Maybe she can explain Chemtrails to me. Wait maybe I need to take a selfie. Am I frowning? I try not to have an Alfred E. Newman silly grin all the time as a serious scientist. I further try not to be seen as flirting with everyone who is happy. Neutral and androgynous, that is the way forward. I'm watching. Bring me up to date.

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evielaw37

1:28PM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Interesting to say the least! and there's a familiar name I see "Tallpindo" hi there I'm back on here but couldn't get into my old page (evielouise37)--now go as evielaw37 Law'being my family name: Nice concept Real and Tallpindo.

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QuietRiot

1:31PM | Wed, 07 June 2017

We are what we are. Humans will disappear from the Earth and she will heal, It doesn't seem all that far off....

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Richardphotos

4:03PM | Wed, 07 June 2017

chemtrails or Bryce trails? very cool surreal art

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goodoleboy

9:31PM | Wed, 07 June 2017

Fine Bryce concept of what looks like a volcano spewing deadly sulphuric ash. We humans, too many of us on the planet as it is, are at fault for climate change. Chemtrails is all unproven conspiracy stuff. I believe in contrails, though.

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