How Concerned Should We Be about Denial of Science?

It’s easy to see where Harrison Ford is coming from here.

Personally, I’m not too concerned about the denial of science in its most visible forms, e.g., QAnon and the flat Earthers.  Even the COVID and climate deniers don’t scare me.

What terrifies me is that our world leaders are motivated more by wealth and power than they are in making sure that science predominates our thinking when it comes to policy-making.

The reason this planet is in the process of baking itself isn’t that we have a certain percentage of idiots who don’t understand AGW (the theory of anthropogenic global warming); it’s that human civilization can’t motivate itself to do what our climate scientists are begging us to do.