02-28-2018, 07:42 PM
Interesting paper on the psychology behind the human-induced
climate change, i.e., global warming "groupthink". A long read, but quite interesting history of the climate change movement.
"The late Professor Irving Janis analysed what happens when people get caught up in what he termed ‘groupthink’, a pattern of collective psychological behaviour with three distinctive features, that we can characterise as rules.
• A group of people come to share a particular view or belief without a proper appraisal of the evidence.
• This leads them to insist that their belief is shared by a ‘consensus’ of all rightminded
opinion.
• Because their belief is ultimately only subjective, resting on shaky foundations, they then defend it only by displaying an irrational, dismissive hostility towards anyone daring to question it."
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/...pthink.pdf
climate change, i.e., global warming "groupthink". A long read, but quite interesting history of the climate change movement.
"The late Professor Irving Janis analysed what happens when people get caught up in what he termed ‘groupthink’, a pattern of collective psychological behaviour with three distinctive features, that we can characterise as rules.
• A group of people come to share a particular view or belief without a proper appraisal of the evidence.
• This leads them to insist that their belief is shared by a ‘consensus’ of all rightminded
opinion.
• Because their belief is ultimately only subjective, resting on shaky foundations, they then defend it only by displaying an irrational, dismissive hostility towards anyone daring to question it."
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/...pthink.pdf