So why is it that we continue to believe environmental doom-mongers, even though history has proven them wrong time and time again?
Oh, wait. It turns out we don’t believe them. Almost 10-million voters in a huge United Nations poll have ranked climate action dead last out of 16 concerns – below even the phone and internet access that all respondents would have enjoyed anyway if they were able to complete the online poll.
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Those are the fruits of constant, shrill, exaggerated alarmism. Get proven wrong by history often enough, and four out of five ordinary people will stop believing you. And good for them, too. Perhaps environmentalists should mind the environment instead of trying to rule the world.
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About the Author
Ivo Vegter is a columnist with the Daily Maverick and the author of Extreme Environment, a book
on environmental exaggeration and how it harms emerging economies. He
writes on this and many other matters, from the perspective of
individual liberty and free markets. He is seldom wrong.
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