Psychology Today: Dylann Roof’s shooting spree linked to ‘climate denial’
Psychology Today: 'Many will correctly blame Roof's actions on America's culture of racism and gun violence, but it's time to realize that such phenomena are directly tied to the nation's culture of ignorance...America is killing itself through its embrace and exaltation of ignorance...In a country where...the chairman of a Senate environmental panel brought a snowball (link is external) into the chamber as evidence that climate change is a hoax...Fundamentalist religion is also a major force in denying human-caused climate change (link is external), a phenomenon that the scientific community has accepted for years. Interestingly, anti-intellectual fundamentalists are joined in their climate change denial with unusual bedfellows: corporate interests (link is external) that stand to gain from the rejection of sound science on climate.Corporate influence on climate and environmental policy, meanwhile, is simply more evidence of anti-intellectualism in action, for corporate domination of American society is another result of a public that is not thinking critically.'
