Have we got time to have right-wing deniers 'lose'?

John Quiggin is Professor of Economics
at the University of Queensland. 

It seems unlikely that those of us who advocate for the mitigation of greenhouse gasses will ever really succeed in convincing others of that need, rather those from the “business as usual” brigade will simply “lose”.

According to a report on Inside Story headed “Climate change and the intellectual decline of the right” argues those on the intellectual right are becoming devoid of arguments, or at least dependent upon vacuous reasons.

Writer John Quiggin says no arguments seem to sway right-wing politicians and commentators in the United States and Australia.

“Will we have to wait for demography to do its work?” he asks.