In a message dated 12/13/2009 4:20:50 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
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Guardian  columnist George Monbiot was a guest this week on NPR's On the  
Media.  
_http://www.onthemedia.org/_ (http://www.onthemedia.org/)  
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His  interview on OTM, and his recent column, "Death Denial," 
_http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/11/02/death-denial/_ 
(http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/11/02/death-denial/) 
are  worthy of consideration -- and grave concern.
 
Monbiot's  lead paragraph:

There is no point in denying it: we’re losing.  Climate change denial is 
spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a  sphere which cannot be 
reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt  to draw attention to 
scientific findings is greeted with furious invective.  This sphere is 
expanding with astonishing speed. 

It brings to my mind Sandra Postel's essay in State  of the World 1992, 
"Denial in the Decisive Decade."   
_http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1031_ (http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1031) 
 
Her "decisive decade" has passed, and we're  still denying the danger.

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