Day: March 16, 2007

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Many people in the environmental field — and I’d even generalize to progressives, broadly speaking — seem to be operating on a set of assumptions:

1. The facts, organized and clearly conveyed, should carry the day.
2. When facts do not change minds, more facts are required, perhaps delivered more slowly.
3. When facts do not change hearts, more facts are required, perhaps delivered more loudly.
4. Those not swayed by facts are intellectually, possibly morally, deficient.
5. If sticking to the facts means losing a debate, well, that’s the price of virtue.