[choollaBard]

This is not to say that some or many or even most on the denier side have any economic stake in the debate, in fact often they would be better off financially siding with the scientific consensus. Somebody's got to do the physical job of building environmentally efficient infrastructure, mostly the denier movement benefits the current batch of capitalist rulers.

Exactly. I don't complain when rioters start looting and breaking windows because the working class will benefit from the physical job of installing new windows. Mostly law and order benefits the current batch of capitalist rulers.