# Conservatism, evolution, global warming, and the truth.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 9, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatism-evolution-global-warming-and-the-truth/524326 "2010-01-09T21:04:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatism-evolution-global-warming-and-the-truth/524326/3 "2010-01-09T22:28:37Z")

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Conservatives are skeptical about global warming because it’s coming from the same crowd that 40 years ago claimed we were running out of trees; 30 years ago claimed we were running out of oil; 25 years ago claimed we were headed for an ice age; and 20 years ago claimed that all the ozone was being depleted. The predicted outcome of each of these was that we were all going to die - just like now with global warming.

Let’s face it - there is a significant segment of the population that is prone to Chicken-Littleism and that segment tends to skew left. Plus such fears are a great impetus for imposing more government regulation upon private enterprise.

And I’d be surprised if more than a very small minority of the conservative population actually believes the earth is only 6,000 years old.

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