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[quote user="Stephen Forde"] [quote user="hjmaiere"]The interesting conversation is about why people want anthropogenic global warming to be true.[/quote] I don't think it has to do with tribal instincts at all. I think this whole global warming thing is just the latest embodiment...
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Humans, like other primates, are communal. Our ancestors spent almost all of their evolutionary history as humans living in small groups of interdependent individuals. At the same time, tribes were in competition for each other for natural resources: foraging grounds, hunting grounds, agricultural lands...