Mag: After Harvey, ‘climate change denial should be a crime’ – ‘Denial can and will leave people dead’

An article in The Outline by Brian Merchant is openly advocating that “climate change denial should be a crime.”

The publication noted: “In the wake of Harvey, it’s time to treat science denial as gross negligence—and hold those who do the denying accountable.” The article added, “call it what it is: Negligence. Criminal negligence, even.” The article, warns: “Harvey is a lightning rod that makes this clear: Climate change denial can and will leave people dead.”

“CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL SHOULD BE A CRIME” – The Outline – September 1, 2017

“We need to add a third response to our evolving national post-catastrophic storm mourning ritual: Identifying and investigating the negligent officials who put the public in harm’s way by repeatedly ignoring crucial data and scientific evidence that can help prevent disaster,” Merchant wrote.

Excerpt: 

“But it’s high time to start taking this pointed refusal to prepare, this refusal to observe the basic tenets of science seriously — and call it what it is: Negligence. Criminal negligence, even. CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL CAN AND WILL LEAVE PEOPLE DEAD…

According to the Texas penal code, “A person acts with criminal negligence, or is criminally negligent… when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise….”

The list of ways that Talbott and his office should have been aware of a substantial risk, by ignoring a robust body of scientific evidence at the tragic expense of the people of Houston, is stunning…

Accordingly, in 2015, Texas senator Ted Cruz told NPR that “Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power.” Like many in his party, he thinks it’s a hoax. Yet in reality, obviously, climate change is an existential threat to residents of his home state not only in the form of hurricanes, but from plights like heat waves, too.

Harvey is a lightning rod that makes this clear: Climate change denial can and will leave people dead. It has never been more evident than now that it is not only scientifically wrongheaded but dangerously and morally abject.

In all caps, the article warns: “THE SCIENCE IS TOO CLEAR ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEAR-TERM TO CONTINUE TO ALLOW PROFITEERS AND IDEOLOGUES TO PLACE THE PUBLIC IN DANGER WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE.”

End excerpt. Full article here.

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Other climate activists have sought to imply that governments could have prevented Harvey by fighting “climate change.”  See: CNN’s Chris Cuomo frets Harvey: Implies government policies can ‘find ways to reduce the number of these storms’  & Don’t ‘allow’ climate to change! Warmist prof. Overpeck warns of bad weather ‘as long as climate change is allowed to continue’

This call to make anyone with dissenting views on “global warming” a criminal, has a long history. In August 2017, a call to put to death prominent skeptics was issued. Climate Depot’s Morano & other skeptics ‘sentenced to death’ for ‘Crimes against Humanity’

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