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This week’s Big Question:
Why Do Americans Continue to Deny Climate Change?
Remember when tobacco industry lobbyists had political influence and were effective at denying the link between smoking and cancer? Journalist Mark Hertsgaard argues that climate-change deniers are the tobacco lobbyist of the 21st century. The United States, he says, is the only advanced industrial nation that continues to debate the reality of climate change. Even though climate deniers represent only a minority of Americans, Hertsgaard says their influence is pervasive. Meanwhile, FORA.tv’s own Stuart Schulzke interviews New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman at the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Friedman rails against climate-change deniers. If the United States became the leader in clean technology, he says, then more people would “actually follow us by emulation than…compulsion.”
Two Views: Hertsgaard and Friedman
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Mark Hertsgaard
Thomas Friedman
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