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"If the scientific community had half the power you have, climate change would no longer be a debate in 70 years."

Your point completely underestimates the world. It's as if there is an innocent science being shot down by various religious forces, idiots like Trump, or absurd metaphysics. But how the world works has not occurred to you. For example, where did your computer come from? Or where the cities we live in, the money and credit systems we use came from? It seems that you think that science is still weak. And so, the problem can be solved by simply sticking to science and then beating down the bleeding heart interest groups.
Don't you see that such a narrative is, in fact, a propaganda of power? It is as if a country always needs a "powerful external enemy" to unite itself. Yet it is a naive fairy tale.
People don't cause atrocities because of some simple stupidity, I mean, they are stupid to some degree, but there is a more frightening theory and mechanism that exploits the underlying stupidity. It's like we witness in the media how American red necks display ignorance and then that ignorance leads to atrocities. But we never think about how things happen. Even if you subscribe to a kind of scientism, you don't like to use science to explore the world. Science is just an ideology, due to a propaganda need, which requires the most ignorant people, with the most empty slogans, to mobilize the "biological power" at the bottom.
Is this not the source of stupidity? Are not those American rednecks, derided as ignorant and crass, the beneficiaries of science and technology, and its products? Yet, for the sake of propaganda, people ignore this circular argument, believing that the problem can be solved by sticking to the established discourse.
If something is wrong with the workings of power, then why don't we go and gain insight into the insidious workings of power, and instead become part of it?
Underestimating the world will be retaliated against. Again, to challenge the public's folly is not to rely on the logic of some propaganda, but to go in search of a more powerful adversary.