I dislike the framing "we're in a climate emergency" because there is nothing meaningful people can do about it, either in the short or medium term. It's the equivalent of a blaring car alarm—people will tune it out. It creates anxiety with no outlet, not a winning political call
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One honest and very human alternative answer to climate change might be "let's spend a ton of money on mitigation, which will give us immediate benefits, rather than doing painful things to address the root cause of the problem, which will only help our theoretical grandchildren"
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This is yet another issue where the American left's message is a combination of "eat your vegetables" and "I told you so!", while the right replies "America is AWESOME" and revs a soot-belching monster truck. It's just more fun on their side. And that's why I think Trump will win
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You have a lot of faith in Republicans if you really believe that
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There are a few Republicans who are at least theoretically good on climate.
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I don’t think that’s a choice one can make. They are tied together whether one likes it or not. The consequences will be unequal, distributed on the same class/race US fault lines they always do. I don’t think the answer is ignore it. Have to do the work to fix classism/racism
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This take should probably grapple with the fact that Republican lawmakers have been opponents of broad and transformative environmental action since at least the 1980s.
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There are important regional disparities that prevent Republicans from having a unified front on issues like renewable energy... unless you anchor it all in culture wars.
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"could" in what political reality?
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“It doesn’t help that the movement to fight slavery in the US has been welded to a Christian moral agenda that has nothing to do with agricultural labor, but guarantees the permanent polarization of the issue.”
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Solar farms named after Confederate generals!
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