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Libertarians and engineers should embrace industrial climate
disruption, not deny it  CATEGORY: PoliticsLawGovernment3Part
Five of a series  Industrial climate disruption presents
challenges to libertarians and engineers. As we saw in Part
Three of this series, the likely policy responses to industrial
climate disruption represent a threat to libertarian values,
specifically the moral ideal of “negative” liberty. And we saw
in Part Four that many engineers consider industrial climate
disruption a threat to their jobs and to their employers, and
industrial climate disruption runs counter to many engineer’s
psychological need for certainty (as discussed in Part Two). And
we saw how cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and
motivated reasoning can lead both libertarians and engineers to
deny the overwhelming scientific evidence supporting industrial
climate disruption.  But not all libertarians or all engineers
are industrial climate disruption deniers. Ma