it's a difficult situaiton if these things are important to you... although top line american right policies are environmentally destructive,
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the larger problem is that psychological factors which generally motivate concern for the environment in westerners also tend to motivate a desire for reduction of inequality and increased social spending
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Do you really think they are psychological factors, or the path-dependent outcome of the formation of two castes with different political loyalties?
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its clearly both, but one shld acknowledge the former when trying to figure out how right-wing env. consciousness cld be brouth about
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I guess I start from the pov that most ppl assume the L/R constellations of policy positions make a lot of sense, when they actually make very little sense and it's tough to find the "core issues" that do fit together "naturally"
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Liberal environmentalism is about big abstract impersonal issues like "Climate Change" so that they can avoid addressing problems affecting people's every day life like cleaning up superfund sites, Chinese resource consumption, or out of control development driven by immigration.
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what's even more amazing is that that is all under the one-child policy
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