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My observation about conservatives on this issue has been that they become defensive when they hear "conservatives have caused global warming with their capitalism, and the only solution is to repudiate the entire conservative world view". It's only human to deny the problem exists in the first place if they are made to believe the choice is between denying the problem and adopting a world view they find untenable.

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> My observation about conservatives on this issue has been that they become defensive when they hear "conservatives have caused global warming with their capitalism, and the only solution is to repudiate the entire conservative world view".

Indeed. Things get particularly ludicrous when you hear people saying that Communism or something like it is the only way to avoid damaging the planet; there was no pollution like Communist pollution, and the Left was hostile to the first Earth Day -- it felt too much like Hitler.

I've heard the expression "watermelons" applied to a lot of this: people who are Green on the outside, Red on the inside.

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