[jandrese]

The ugly truth is that propaganda works, especially over long time periods. The fossil fuel industry has been funding propaganda for decades now, longer than most people have been alive. They commissioned studies about climate change in the 50s and knew exactly what was going to happen and how it would affect their businesses so they got ahead of it with continuous ad campaigns and political activism.

This has been going on for so long we are now in an era where for a sizable percentage of the population truth no longer matters. That was the long term goal all along, once climate change became otherwise undeniable the people would be disassociated from reality and still support the fossil fuel industry.