This makes it all too easy to slip into weak and self - serving ways of thinking, supported by a convenient apathy and
ideological fervor.
But those who have drunk the fossil fuel kool - aid won't let the facts get in the way of
their ideological fervor to keep «biz as usual» — come hell or high water (i.e., climate change impacts galore).
Today's contending winds of
ideological fervor form a climate even more dully hostile to abstraction than that of good old - fashioned philistine dismissal.