Sentences with phrase «dangerous delusion of»

And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.

In 2008, he published Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of «Energy Independence».

Not exact matches

Dreams of peace and justice, dreams that I — and communist children alike — had been fed, were dangerous delusions in the hands of those who had the power and ambition to try to realize them fully.

Mysticism is sometimes thought of as a dangerous pursuit because of the potential for self - deception or self - delusion.

And we point our fingers at fanatics in Iran, we have just as many dangerous paranoid delusion self appoint righteous fanatics right here in the good ole US of A...

There is, to be sure, an element of «put - down» here: I intend to put down the arrogant delusion of intellectuals that they are superior human beings and the even more dangerous idea that, by virtue of their putatively superior qualities, they constitute a moral or even political elite.

Unexpectedly losing a loved one launched 18 - year - old Debra * into an episode of major depression, triggering dangerous delusions that landed her in a hospital.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

This sort of thinking constitutes a dangerous delusion.

«For most people, the most dangerous self - delusion is that even a falling market will not affect their stocks, which they bought out of a canny understanding of value» Leon Levy

IPCC reviewer and climate researcher Dr Vincent Gray, of New Zealand, an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports going back to 1990, author of more than 100 scientific publications and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of «Climate Change 2001,» declared «The claims of the IPCC are dangerous unscientific nonsense» in an April 10, 2007 article.

Congress» century - long history of ignoring science: The dangerous climate delusions our lawmakers just can't shed

Regarding long term outcomes, I tend to agree with flxible that even short term outcomes don't look good but it seems to me that Wasdell is at least showing that if the international community wants to avoid 2C (because of some arbitrary idea of where dangerous climate change will kick in, agreed on years ago) then it can't do it without removing atmospheric greenhouse gases and so any notion that some emissions reduction agreement can do the trick are delusions.