Bill McKibben: This is how the earth works now

[AverageJoe90]

15. Sad but true. The hardcore doomer set didn't make things any easier for us, though, that's for sure.

Remember those nutty Chicken Littles screaming about humanity going extinct(as a direct result of AGW!), and the planet turning into Venus's little sister? Yep, those are the doomers. And guess what? They proved to be a highly convenient stereotype for the Koch Bros. and all the other crooks; they took this small(although highly vocal) minority of people and made it look like every single person who believed in anthropogenic climate change was a kook, on top of all the other bullshit they were pushing out, and many actually bought into it. I have come to the conclusion that, were it not for the doomers getting so much attention, Big Oil would have had a much harder time selling their platform, because the doomers proved to be the-all-too-convenient stereotype. And it worked, sad to say.

All we can do now is keep trying to inform people. The one bit of good news is that the deniers are having a harder and harder time still getting people to buy their bullshit. Hopefully, we can soon start mitigating the damage.