Jeff, the first thing you can do is look at the people who don't believe in Global Warming. What common characteristics do they have, and what thought patterns do they have which contradict the Global Warming threat? I see and talk to them everyday, as do you, and the readers of your blog.
The typical attributes of people refusing to believe in global warming and it's threats are also the people who routinely go to church and openly call themselves good christians. These people are also the least likely to recycle anything, and firmly believe that there'll never be an oil shortage regardless of what evidence you give them. These people grew up following what their fathers and their grandfathers did and are happy living in the confines of their elders footsteps. They see oil barons bringing in billions and say that they are the ones to blame for high oil prices and that if they only made 5 million apiece per year then the gas prices would drop and everyone would be happy as usual.
The problems I see is that most people in the group mentioned above take no interest in scientific journals and get everything they know about the topic from their friends whom are often times just as ignorant on the topic as they are, or they get it their information from Fox News. Most of the anti-global warming crowd I know personally refuse to watch anything else but Fox News.
The solutions are hard and they require fighting fire with fire. There's no playing nice in a situation like this and it requires some study of Christianity even if you don't personally believe in the faith. The key is knowing that THEY do, and therefore you can use it against them in order to make your point.
Here's an example of a conversation I had with a Mississippi firefighter the other day about the polar bears in the arctic drowning and how I handled it. He didn't care about the polar bears and didn't care about the ice melting. The first thing I did to stop him in his tracks was say, "and you consider yourself a good christian?" He was genuinely offended, as I wanted him to be, and he said, "of course I am!" I then went on to ask him whether or not he though the Bible was the word of God, and therefore the guidance on how to live his life. He told me he believed everything in the Bible was real and factual. I then told him to think of what his God would say to him if he allowed the deaths of the polar bears through Global Warming when it shows rather clearly in the Bible that God wanted to protect all of the species on the globe by having Noah collect them all and put them on the Arc. I told him that not caring about the polar bears and what global warming is doing to them, is the equivalent to going against Gods will as it's depicted in the Bible. After all, God loved all species enough to save them before the Flood, so he must love all species equally, therefore people ought to as well.
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That conversation didn't last very long because I used his own weapon against him. He didn't have a leg to stand on. That's how this issue is going to have to be dealt with. I don't like getting into religion for personal reasons, but if the nay-sayers are going to use their religion as a major source of their information, then I'm willing to engage in the argument in order to "convert" one at a time.
Good people/christians who go regularly to church are the ones that fear most because they are held in fear by a myth and religion is 'man made' not 'God made'...there is a saying, 'fear God and keep your bowels clear'..make what you will of it...it is absurd! But it is a saying that millions of people take to heart and all reason is an un-graspable,as long as religion is 'bottom lining' the good people with the fear of loss and hell. It's that simple, fear is the key...
There is another phrase relating to scientists - 'there are those that continue to believe the world is flat...and there are those that know it is round'. There are people employed to professionally lie and who do it because it is their "job" and they fear of loosing it especially when it is well paid and was arranged by a friend/s in high places/influence. PR is as much about credible lying as it is about credible truth...When the lolly is coming in and filling the coffers like it has been doing through mans false economy "rape of the natural world" with all its astounding riches even King Solomans Mines are but poor in relationship...Religion is a terrible advocate of perversions in truth and myth and accounts for millions of senseless poverties in this so called modern world. Do not be surprised at the negativism since the world in general must function on ignorance... there was an interesting comment on the 'cleantech blog' which is worth a view...
First create an idea then create a demand then create from this a plan of continuity to maintain it as a form of religious way of life...Its simply "eco-life" with a damned sight more benefits than what is being handed out at present. You want to change things? draw the people in around you that want it also and create a viable alternative which will blossom its own power.You can call it"Cawwots For Ecowabbits"
I know this doesn't quite fit into any of these four criteria, as it's still not quite an imediate "holy #@&*", but explorers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen just got to the North Pole and you can imagine what the trip showed them.
They reported lots of melting ice and polar bear tracks far to the north, likely because the bears had to go farther to find good hunting ice. It's quite troubling and there's plent more on the site: www.projectthinice.org
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