OSU ethics/philosophy professors on people who don't believe that CO2 causes bad weather: "What they really must believe, but cannot say, is that greed and limitless profit trump the human rights of all future generations"

Exposing the logic of climate change denial | OregonLive.com

millions of dollars are poured into attacks on climate science and scientists by those deeply invested in preventing society from drawing any conclusions that might block the unimaginably profitable activity of pouring carbon [sic] into the air...What they really must believe, but cannot say, is that greed and limitless profit trump the human rights of all future generations.
---Michael P. Nelson holds the Ruth H. Spaniol Endowed Chair in Natural Resources and is a professor of environmental ethics and philosophy at Oregon State University. Kathleen Dean Moore is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at OSU.