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Why is the King of the Incels branching out to climate science denial?
He started out as a climate science denier.
He once worked as an advisor to a politician/businessman who commented in a climate science report for the UN, So he's an expert (self-titled) on the subject. The actual report does disagree with his bullshit, but knowing that requires you to be the sort of person who looks things up and not blindly trust Jordan Peterson, so no one in his target audience.
This very short video takes a look at some of Peterson's claims and actually starts off with the climate nonsense.
He's so far ~~up his own ass~~ down the philosophy rabbit hole that he thinks climate science is a matter of philosophy...?
Gotta collect all the bad ideas.
It's all the same tribalist grift. See Dan Olsen's "Building A Flat Earth" and Innuendo Studios's's' "Endnote: the Origins of Conservatism." We're dealing with people who figure someone's got to be king, and don't mean things when they say words. They only understand the world in terms of interpersonal trust. Like there's some innate total hierarchy, for everything, where being higher up means you get the power to decide what's real.
And they think that's all you're doing, because they think that's all there is.
well said!
He's Albertan. Of course he is.