Quote from: stjakobs on 05.04.2024, 10:48:22Avisa Nordland, som delvis ikke kommer på papir mer, har i dag lagt ut «Filmen Climate the Movie» – hevder at klimakrisen er ren svindel" på webutgaven.
https://www.an.no/filmen-climate-the-movie-hevder-at-klimakrisen-er-ren-svindel/o/5-4-1937427
QuoteBritish writer Charles Mackay treated the psychological aspects of what a reviewer called "the exotic fields of mass self-deception" as early as 1841 in his three-volume work "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds." A more recent classic is the 1959 "Rumor, Fear and the Madness of Crowds" by psychologist J.P. Chaplin.
Both writers had plenty of material because humanity never ceases to amaze. There have been economic bubbles such as the Dutch tulip mania of 1634–1637 up to the very recent collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX cryptocurrency exchange. There have been religious frenzies, including hunts for witches and mass suicides. There have been other mass hysterias involving the paranormal, diseases and end-of-the-world scenarios.
None has been so potentially harmful than the mass hysteria of climate change that has infiltrated every aspect of the private and political lives of Western civilization. The theory that carbon dioxide is the driving force increasing world temperature has warped national budgets, promoted duplicity, sowed discontent among some and fear among many, terminated careers and even filtered down to mandates on the acceptable fuel to boil water in the millions of home kitchens.