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Conference examines "climate change denial" as a mental illness
03/04/2009 | Brendan O’Neill

Posted on 03/07/2009 9:49:00 AM PST by mporter345

This weekend, the University of West England is hosting a major conference on climate change denial. Strikingly, it’s being organised by the university’s Centre for Psycho-Social Studies. It will be a gathering of those from the top of society – ‘psychotherapists, social researchers, climate change activists, eco-psychologists’ – who will analyse those at the bottom of society, as if we were so many flitting, irrational amoeba under an eco-microscope. The organisers say the conference will explore how ‘denial’ is a product of both ‘addiction and consumption’ and is the ‘consequence of living in a perverse culture which encourages collusion, complacency and irresponsibility’ (1). It is a testament to the dumbed-down, debate-phobic nature of the modern academy that a conference is being held not to explore ideas – to interrogate, analyse and fight over them – but to tag them as perverse.

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TOPICS: Education; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: agw; climate; globalwarming
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1 posted on 03/07/2009 9:49:00 AM PST by mporter345
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To: mporter345; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; ...

 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 03/07/2009 9:52:55 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Yo, Washingtonians, the American people called. They DEMAND their country back.)
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Easy way to take out your detractors: have them declared mentally ill and irrelevant.


3 posted on 03/07/2009 9:53:21 AM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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Easy way to take out your detractors: have them declared mentally ill and irrelevant.

A standard Soviet tactic for dealing with dissidents and malcontents.

4 posted on 03/07/2009 9:54:11 AM PST by Spirochete
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To: mporter345

Buncha freekin greenazis.


5 posted on 03/07/2009 9:54:32 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Spirochete

America 2009 = St. Petersburg 1917. My how history repeats itself.


6 posted on 03/07/2009 9:55:57 AM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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Just a wild guess that reeducation camps will be their solution


7 posted on 03/07/2009 9:57:20 AM PST by hugorand
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They will a part of the solution . . . .


8 posted on 03/07/2009 9:59:16 AM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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Just a wild guess that reeducation camps will be their solution

Yeah, but just call them public schools. Don't want people to become suspicious of just exactly where we are headed

9 posted on 03/07/2009 10:01:01 AM PST by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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The global warming farce is another method of advancing socialism. Labeling anyone who opposes socialism as mentally ill is a by product.


10 posted on 03/07/2009 10:03:02 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: mporter345

So, if you don’t believe in Snow White and the seven dwarfs, and the tooth fairy or brer rabbit or Charlie Coyote, it’s a sign of mental illness? Here we are Orwell.


11 posted on 03/07/2009 10:04:22 AM PST by Waco
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How very Soviet.


12 posted on 03/07/2009 10:04:59 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (Palin / Limbaugh 2012)
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But the people who can’t sleep at night for fear the ice caps will melt and they will drown, are perfectly sane.


13 posted on 03/07/2009 10:06:51 AM PST by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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I actually had an Obama-Voting Lib tell me that not burning wood to stay warm, and freezing, was better than COOKING TO DEATH from Global warming!!!!!!!!!

I Sh**t you not!!!

These people are freakin’ gullible and insane, and they are going to bring misery to all of us....

And this lib has OBVIOUSLY never been cold a single day of his life.


14 posted on 03/07/2009 10:11:46 AM PST by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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“The global warming farce is another method of advancing socialism”

“We must embrace Environmentalism, for Socialism to survive”- Hans-Jochen Vogel, Chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party-1989

Gorbachev said in 1987 that ENVIRONMENTALISM would be the vehicle for Socialist control of the world.

The Religion of Climate Change is simply a vehicle to that end...


15 posted on 03/07/2009 10:14:13 AM PST by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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Hey, it’s a money maker.


16 posted on 03/07/2009 10:15:02 AM PST by AGreatPer (Obama is not my president until we see his birth certificate. A real one.)
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To: txnativegop
Funny, I'm reading "Liberal Fascism" and just read the part about the leftist/fascist statists declaring those who believed in personal freedom and small government as mentally insane and irrelevant...

Goldberg, you are my hero!

Never before has so much information been so readily available in one place.

17 posted on 03/07/2009 10:21:45 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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To: txnativegop

Isn’t that what the leaders of the USSR did? Had the oppostition declared mentally ill and committed them to institutions.


18 posted on 03/07/2009 10:30:16 AM PST by abclily
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“America 2009 = St. Petersburg 1917. My how history repeats itself.”

Yes, it’s back to “1984”.


19 posted on 03/07/2009 10:30:42 AM PST by aquila48
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To: tcrlaf

Libs are from the left side of the bell curve.


20 posted on 03/07/2009 10:32:34 AM PST by abclily
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