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The Climate of Political Philanthropy

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With the COP26 global climate summit apparently happening quite soon in Scotland, where is the political philanthropy associated with the preparations, and who is supplying it? Perhaps you are doing so. What do you already know about the climate of political philanthropy? How do you question assumptions of various sorts, and for what reasons? What are your assumptions about political philanthropy? What are your assumptions about climates? What is your usual approach to questioning assumptions, including your own? Clarity is especially important when contentious politics is frequently mistaken for non-contentious science. To say the Earth is flat is politically contentious not because it is ridiculous but because some people either still believe it to be true or they are being paid to say it is true. The physical shape of the Earth is certainly not scientifically contentious. The ridiculous is easily addressed through the satirical presentation of ridicule. The dangerous is not quite