CIGARETTE STRATEGY. “Oreskes and Conway show that climate change was really a surrogate for larger fears of a regulatory state—a state seen as increasingly willing to curtail free-market liberties in the name of environmental protection. Environmentalism (and in particular climate science) was conjured up as the latest in a long line of threats to liberty.”
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