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No, it will not wake them up or change their minds. I know too many Red Staters, most of my relatives, these are not scientific thinkers, they are not logical thinkers, they're magical thinkers, they have a pseudo-religious belief that the supply of fossil fuels is infinite, will never run out, and burning fossil fuels has nothing to wit…
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No, it will not wake them up or change their minds. I know too many Red Staters, most of my relatives, these are not scientific thinkers, they are not logical thinkers, they're magical thinkers, they have a pseudo-religious belief that the supply of fossil fuels is infinite, will never run out, and burning fossil fuels has nothing to with the "climate change hoax." They tell me renewable energy "won't work."
I can give them all kinds of information and it never sinks in. Most of them probably think that tornadoes and hurricanes and other natural disasters are acts of God punishing America for having wokeness and critical race theory and liberals.
You have just described Dominionism, The promise of their Bible is that their god will always look after his pet sheep, and the only thing to do is wait from the apocalypse, when IHSus will return, lift all of the believers into the sky (where will they reside..on clouds or the planets?) Leaving us heathens to suffer.
They believe! so how can it not be so?
"Faith is the evidence of things unseen, the proof of things hoped for!"
HEBREWS 11:1 / ST. PAUL WHOEVER HE WAS