This geek nourished at the public trough is now out among us announcing that people like me are like slaveholders and need forced chemical treatment. Isn't that nice. Makes me want to send more $$ to my alumni fund.
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Climate-change scepticism must be 'treated', says enviro-sociologist
According to an Oregon uni statement announcing the paper:
Resistance at individual and societal levels must be recognized and treated ...
"This kind of cultural resistance to very significant social threat is something that we would expect in any society facing a massive threat," [Norgaard] said.
The discussion, she said, is comparable to what happened with challenges to racism or slavery in the U.S. South.
Professor Norgaard considers that fuzzy-studies academics such as herself must stand shoulder to shoulder with the actual real climate scientists who know some maths in an effort to change society and individuals for their own good. It's not a new idea: trick-cyclists in Blighty and the US have lately called for a "science of communicating science" rather reminiscent of Isaac Asimov's science-fictional "Psychohistory" discipline, able to predict and alter the behaviour of large populations*.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/30/climate_scepticism_racism_slavery_treatment/