Bill McKibben: This is how the earth works now

[AverageJoe90]

29. They may not have blocked the changes, that IS true.

And I never said they did. But sadly, whatever good intentions they may have had, helped further pave the road to Zero Hour, because their far-out hypothetical theories and such made them the PERFECT stereotype for the Big Energy hucksters and their PR people; they were the perfect paint for the brush that was used to slander all those who accepted the reality of climate change, and to plant doubts in the minds of those who may have been more open to the truth....and the doomers didn't even see it coming, blissfully unaware that their noble intentions had come to exactly naught....but I can't really blame them for being manipulated, just as I can't blame those who may have trouble understanding the reality of climate change.

It's kinda like a nice old lady on the corner of a neighborhood of a Kansas town who screams doom when a slightly nasty-looking summertime thunderstorm comes on top of the place and many of the other residents just shrug it off, like "Eh, it's no big deal, she worries about monster twisters all the time", and so they don't heed too well the warnings that do come on the news(although some do prepare; "Well, even if there's no twister it wouldn't hurt to get our things ready and all". And when the F-1 tornado does touch down, many of them are caught off guard, because they thought it was just another storm, and many more are injured than what could have been in a more normal situation.

It may not be the best analogy out there, but I do hope you get the point.