1. Introduction
2. The typical British nationalist does not believe in climate change
3. There is a scientific consensus that climate change is happening and humans are contributing to it
4. Why is the nationalist view on climate change so at odds with the scientific consensus?
5. It is highly unlikely that climate change is a scientific hoax
6. Which human activities cause climate change and what are its potential consequences?
7. The political establishment has been at best apathetic about climate change
8. Nationalism would do much more against climate change than the establishment has
9. We can use these facts to our advantage if we accept climate change as a reality
10. Why this issue might have greater importance
1. Introduction
This article is about climate change and its relation to nationalism. I will first show that the typical attitude in nationalism towards climate change is one of skepticism and how that attitude is at odds with the scientific consensus, and then I will discuss the probable reasons for this discrepancy, including misunderstanding of the scientific consensus and common misconceptions about climate change. Perhaps the strongest foundation of nationalist skepticism towards climate change – the belief that it is a hoax created by the political establishment for various purposes – will be dealt with as I argue that climate change is actually a potentially grave threat to the establishment.
In doing so, I will briefly explain what climate change is, how human activity contributes to it, what problems and damage will potentially be caused by it and how the international political establishments have been consistently apathetic about taking action against such an enormous problem to the detriment of our people. It will then be shown that climate change, far from being a weapon made to be used against us, is potentially one of the most effective weapons in the arsenal of nationalist propaganda and perhaps even one we cannot afford to disarm by refusing to accept the phenomenon as a reality. We will then finally discuss how this weapon can be deployed.
