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> [And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-klein/and-that-is-what-is-behind-the-abrupt-rise-in-climate-change-denial/)

[Naomi Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-klein/)

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> [I was educated in a deeply kind of un-politically-correct way. I went to St. John's College which is this kind of Great Books school which is equally popular with hardcore conservatives who want their kids to read the Great White…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-polgreen/i-was-educated-in-a-deeply-kind-of-un-politically-correct-way-i-went/)

[Lydia Polgreen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-polgreen/)

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