To be fair to those libertarians though I still disagree with them they often are making the argument that yeah humans can have an impact on the climate but many voices are too alarmist about it and it is a bit beyond our control . That kind of stance isn ' t really antiscience at all since scientific consensus does often shift and climate science is never a settled fact when it is predicting what will happen . Anyone who denies that our emissions of carbon doesn ' t in some way impact the atmosphere is being totally against the science as there is hard evidence of that , but how soon we all are going to die using a bit of hyperbole here is up for debate . <| sep |> Research the term Assertive Communication That should help you get started down the long road of Emotional SelfSufficiency you describe . FWIW my Dad I seem to have a very similar relationship . So now I limit my time around him to a few short conversations a week . Maybe oneday he ' ll let me be me . But not at the moment .