Combine capitalist greed with magical thinking(ie "faith" ) and throw in a dollop of resistance to change, and we are f**ked!
["Never underestimate the power of the human mind to rationalize its way out of reality," --Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication]
Why humans are wired against evaluating climate risk
I recently received an unsolicited mini-lecture from a claims adjuster, no less, who insisted manmade climate change is a hoax, that there is insufficient data to prove any real climate change, and fossil fuel burning doesn't matter.