Academically educated people are strongly overrepresented in the opinion-forming institutions when it comes to climate and energy policy. She cares little that life in higher spheres of morality is often associated with high costs.
The analysis of referendums enables the socio-economic and socio-demographic analysis of political opinion formation.
Nowadays one can become a “climate denier” just as quickly and unexpectedly as a “racist”. It is enough to critically question the 1.5 degree or net zero target. Roger Pielke junior, for example, a political scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder, was defamed as a “climate denier” simply because he did not identify any clear trends towards more extreme global weather events in meticulous data analyzes on droughts, floods, bush fires or hurricanes – contrary to widespread alarmism could.