Climate Change and Congress
What does it mean when the discussion of reality is declared off limits? What does it mean when ideology trumps scientific knowledge? When the question is one of survival, like in climate change, it means not only that the best information is not available, but that the political structure will refuse to formulate policies to deal with disaster. Twenty-five years ago the discoveries of science were declared invalid, and the scientists in collusion for mutual and personal benefit. Now, if that information, freely researched, becomes inadmissible to formulate policy in Congress, it means that destruction is inevitable. At what point does the advance of truth not only become declared inadmissible, but its formulation illegal on grounds that it frightens a nation? See The Collapse of Western Civilization, by Oreskes and Conway, Columbia University Press, 2014. When truth is off limits, societies turn to strong leaders (dictatorship) and finally collapse under the weight of reality.