Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Violent Backlash Against Climate Scientists

by Stephen Leahy from IPS news service. I think that the basic conflict behind all the efforts to deny the overwhelming evidence of man-made climate change is that the capitalist system is on a collision course with the limits of our earth's ecological systems. Capitalists will viciously attack any threat to their beloved system even if it means the destruction of their own habitat. They are like addicts who know that their destructive habits will kill them (as well as the rest of us), but they simply can't stop.
U.S. Senator James Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma and climate change denier, in late February released a list of leading climate scientists he wants prosecuted as criminals for misleading the government. Those scientists are receiving hate mail and death threats.