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Comment by dkjaudyeqooe | Hacker News Reader

Given these people's response it seems rising oceans, droughts and extreme weather are not the main dangers of global warming, but instead the hordes of the mentally untethered looking for someone to blame for what they've warned about for years.

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A conspiracy theorist might say that this article is designed as clever propaganda to 1. make people blame issues on groups of mentally unstable people and 2. that it's designed to label the out of field as dangerous and insane.

But only a mad conspiracy theorist would think that this is propaganda.

Society in general is beset with nutjobs.

The problem is not that the perps are conspiracy theorists it's that they think harassment is a reasonable behaviour.

Climate activists can be just as harassing as their counter parts.

And it's getting worse.

Maybe if the media wasn't effectively an appendage of the state and transparently lying on a regular basis, citizens would be a lot less vulnerable to bullshit.

Which media, which state? For decades certain media and certain public officials have been lying about climate change while raking in money from companies with a vested interest in those lies. There is quite a lot of media which drives viewership by insisting that "the media" and "the government" is lying to them. And they're not always wrong, but they're always politically motivated.

And by state, you mean corporations, right?

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