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It Could Happen Here

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Climate Change - The Population Bomb

As a child growing up in the bible belt, nearly everything i learned about climate change was filtered through this lins. The picture painted by media pundits and best selling authors like michael crihton was that scientists were, at worst, corrupt shills pushing an environmentalist agenda. Companies like exon spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last forty years funding think tanks and propaganda campaigns in to so doubt over the reality of climate change or global warming. It's worth digging into exactly how this happened. Part of the story you already know. I first learned about him on pennon teller's bullshit, a libertarian theme sciency show that was popular in the early auts for

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