• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was not “fishing for gotchas.” I heard the discussion. He was using denialist talking points. And Peterson was even more so with no pushback from Kennedy.

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      1 year ago

      No pushback? The video you linked shows him leading with the fact that global warming is real and significant. And in other videos he has expanded more on that, clearly stating that it is an existential risk.

      But in this video, he said that this (real) crisis could/would be used to further totalitarian controls. That’s not denial, that’s “yes and”.

      As I mentioned, it’s rational to defend personal individual rights while still directing the power of government to clean up the environment.

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        1 year ago

        That’s absolutely a denial. That is not the real crisis. The real crisis is the possible end of humanity due to climate change, caused by humanity.