Meteorologist Chris Gloninger will step down from Iowa station KCCI partly because of PTSD he suffered after receiving threats related to his climate coverage.
I’m saddened by this, but not surprised. The rationalist in me wants to think that at some point the red state attacks on science will have consequences in worse quality of life for their residents, but I’m not optimistic enough to believe that will happen before the whole culture collapses.
Problem is that the church leaders and politicians in the red states will point and scream at their opponents about how they are the cause of it all, god is punishing them, and their base is ignorant enough to lap it up and further entrench them against science and common fucking sense.
I live in an extremely backwards red area in the US and I see this every day.
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Non-paywall article on the same topic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-meteorologist-chris-gloninger-quits-18-year-career-after-receiving-death-threat-over-his-climate-coverage/
I’m saddened by this, but not surprised. The rationalist in me wants to think that at some point the red state attacks on science will have consequences in worse quality of life for their residents, but I’m not optimistic enough to believe that will happen before the whole culture collapses.
Problem is that the church leaders and politicians in the red states will point and scream at their opponents about how they are the cause of it all, god is punishing them, and their base is ignorant enough to lap it up and further entrench them against science and common fucking sense.
I live in an extremely backwards red area in the US and I see this every day.
Exactly. Mississippi checking in. o/
I’m sorry, stay strong!