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Climate change seems too much to me like a stick being used to advance an agenda. Whenever a solution is proposed it always dovetails with something the person
by hackeraccount 9y ago
Climate change seems too much to me like a stick being used to advance an agenda. Whenever a solution is proposed it always dovetails with something the person proposing it would want anyway.
Instapundit - right wing law blogger - used to put up posts that would start "I'll believe Climate Change is a problem when X believes it is" and then link to an article about some celebrity flying 50,000 miles a year or doing something else that put a trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Good for a laugh I suppose but honestly I wonder if there's not some truth there.
Why are the solutions always sold on the basis of "win/win" with the both wins going to the same end of the political spectrum? I understand that it sounds like extortion or blackmail but it seems like if you really want a solution you have to sell it to people who don't agree with your politics not just try and ram it down their throats.
- esarbe 9y agoAt this point, there really is no discussion anymore about whether or not there is climate change. The question is what we can do to survive as a global civilization. Continued survival seems pretty like win/win to me, no matter what the political orientation. Also, I seem to remember that environmental protection came pretty much out of the conservative corner. See Teddy Roosevelt and his national parks. Also also, coal vs. renewables is /not/ a conservative vs. progressive discussion. I've yet to find a conservative that thinks the public should allow the externalization of the costs caused by private pollution.