I call this “Lion King” syndrome. In Disney movies the lions put their paws around the gazelles and they all sing the closing title tune together. They’re all just good buddies, really.

In reality, lions kill their prey – the old, young, weak, and the sick individuals – by either clamping on their throats, choking off their windpipes, or ripping out their victims’ underbellies so that their entrails come out.

Kinda hard to set that to a catchy closing tune.

Atheist are a big chunk but plenty of religious folk have been sucked in too. What they seem to have in common is a rather masochistic view of themselves and mankind in general as an unnatural outsider in the natural world. Probably arrived at by the narrative being relentlessly pushed that all success by individual lives or even the species as a whole is more properly viewed as the story of injustice done to the less successful

But what they don’t seem to grasp, is every lifeform that exist on the planet got here by inflicting this same injustice. if all life were held to the same ridiculous standards.

Life is competitive. To suggest competitiveness and the striving for success is unnatural is to grossly misunderstand the natural world.

If you doubt this just take a look at any of Al Gore’s recent video interviews or speeches – both him and the little enclaves of people he talks to are cutting themselves off from unsettling facts and getting more and more desperate.

So it a matter of speaking they are correct; belief in man made climate change is a mental disease.