"...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public."

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People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are opposed by people who also have a priori politics saying that this is the best of all possible worlds, capitalism is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you're just alarmists and so on and they can massage the data so it fits them.

— Richard Lewontin