Choosing To Not Believe

IT CAN BE DIFFICULT to understand and relate to climate change denial. It might help to think of it in terms of deniability. Climate change is extremely easy to deny, just as it is easy to deny that UFOs are extraterrestrials, or to deny ghosts, or reincarnation,or any religion, or any alternative reality paradigm. Climate change has a mysterious, strange, unreal sense to it, like paranormal phenomenon. It has the same sound to it as the rapture, or Y2K, for those old enough to remember that. As the twenty first century approached late in the nineteen nineties, a great deal was made of its approach, and all manner of dire consequences were predicted, such as the collapse of human civilization. climate change has an unreal sounds to it which make it easy to dismiss it as yet another product of the human imagination. Sometimes I think that I would love to be a climate change denier. In fact, I probably would if I could. But at this point I couldn't. No way. I understand climate change too well, have for too long, and now, more so all the time, and I see it all around me, in my life, plain as day. For me, climate change is way beyond plausible denial, or denial of any kind. all the other stuff named above I am basically agnostic about, have been most of my life, and will probably remain so. I confess that I do not believe that Jesus Christ is going to return to Earth, sooner or later, and I strongly believe in life on other planets, but the lack of any good evidence for actual extraterrestrials on Earth I find fairly convincing. Either they are not here, or, if they are, well concelaed. Its fun to muse and speculate about subjects the actual answers about we might never know, such as ghosts and UFOs. However, we have had much better luck researching, studying, learning the facts about climate change than either UFOs or ghosts, both of which have proved and still are very elusive. We simply c an't seem to find any actual, tangible, universally verifiable ghosts or alien spacecraft, but, as consolation, we have learned a lot about chemistry, biology, and other sciences, such as meteorology and environmental science. Climate change is more like evolution by natural selection and vaccination efficacy than ghosts or UFOs. Vaccinations work, humans evolved, and climate change, horribly, tragically, is very real. The same people who believe in things like ghosts, UFOs, and the repture, all imaginary, tend to refuse to believe in the realty of climate change and human evolution, tellingly. They prefer to live in a sort of false, reverse reality. They find it more comforting. If a conservative acknowledges the reality of climate change, he runs the risk of acknowledging that progressive Democrats are correct about something, which to s conservative is unacceptabe. Everyday I think about climate change, about how the climate where I live has been and is changing so fast, and the fact that it begins to appear that I shall live to see some very devastating consequences of climate change, which I never thought would happen. Its not a pleasant thought. I sometimes wish I could brainwash all this udnerstanding of chemistry and climate change out of my mind, convince mself that there is no such thing, and become a happy go lucky climate change denier. But if I have to become a far right wing evangalical Christian Trump supporter, forget about it.