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The GOP's position is to not let climate change be the catalyst for wealth redistribution, by any means.


I agree that's "a" position, but there is much more. By itself, it doesn't explain why they try to defund research, deny the facts, etc.

The only pattern I can find to explain it is that they might see the issue as part of the 'culture war' with liberalism, and so they reject it outright as part of their effort to reject liberalism. (But that's a huge generalization about the thoughts of tens of millions of people.)


I think that climate change denial is an example of a cargo cult and that we could learn more about cargo cults in general by studying this one.


Wealth 're'-distribution? So where was the wealth distributed from to start with? It wasn't; by and large it was earned as businesses across the world know very well.




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