In a talk at the meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society, Assistant Professor Joshua Luczak highlights that climate denialism is harmful not only because it has repeatedly hindered governments from taking immediate and drastic (or even meaningful) action on mitigating the harmful effects of anthropogenic climate change, but because it is “harmful bulls**t.”
“It is often harmful,” Dr. Luczak writes, “because it undermines the epistemic demands imposed on us by what we care about. It is harmful because it undermines the epistemic demands imposed on us by the social roles we occupy. It is harmful because it undermines the epistemic demands imposed on us by morality. And it is harmful because it corrodes epistemic trust.”
Watch the 10-minute talk here.