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I disagree - most Republicans I know agree climate change is occurring. The issue is the other party vilifying/putting at risk thousands of jobs currently in th

I disagree - most Republicans I know agree climate change is occurring. The issue is the other party vilifying/putting at risk thousands of jobs currently in the legacy fossil fuel industries, not to mention essentially raising prices on everything for the regular person. It'd work to everyone's favor if a sound transition plan is agreed on, which gives the folks in the legacy industries preference to clean energy jobs/businesses.

mempko 5y ago
That's what the green new deal is. A sound transition plan.
loloquwowndueo 5y ago
Did it ever occur to you, in your US-centricity, that parent was talking about a canadian party, since this all started because of a weather event in Canada? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/20/canada-conservative-party-climate-change-real https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/20/canada-conserv...
kergonath 5y ago
> The issue is the other party vilifying/putting at risk thousands of jobs currently in the legacy fossil fuel industries That’s propaganda. The industry is vilified, for good reasons as well as bad ones. The people working in this industry are just pawns in a politics game. There aren’t that many of them in the first place, and there are just as many jobs to be had in non-fossil fuel energy production. > not to mention essentially raising prices on everything for the regular person. What do you think will happen to the prices of everything once climate change seriously perturbs agriculture, and once you need either heating or cooling all year round just to live in most of the world? Where will the money come from when we’ll need to build flood walls and levees, and all the infrastructure near the coasts will need to be overhauled. Or when water runs out in the American West? Climate change is coming to cost orders of magnitude more than preventing it. > It'd work to everyone's favor if a sound transition plan is agreed on, … Assuming you’re American, that’s not going to happen, because > … which gives the folks in the legacy industries preference to clean energy jobs/businesses. This was part of the platform of one party and the other still was not interested. Instead they whined about guns and abortion. Well, enjoy the future.
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mempko 5y ago

That's what the green new deal is. A sound transition plan.

loloquwowndueo 5y ago

Did it ever occur to you, in your US-centricity, that parent was talking about a canadian party, since this all started because of a weather event in Canada? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/20/canada-conservative-party-climate-change-real https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/20/canada-conserv...

kergonath 5y ago

> The issue is the other party vilifying/putting at risk thousands of jobs currently in the legacy fossil fuel industries That’s propaganda. The industry is vilified, for good reasons as well as bad ones. The people working in this industry are just pawns in a politics game. There aren’t that many of them in the first place, and there are just as many jobs to be had in non-fossil fuel energy production. > not to mention essentially raising prices on everything for the regular person. What do you think will happen to the prices of everything once climate change seriously perturbs agriculture, and once you need either heating or cooling all year round just to live in most of the world? Where will the money come from when we’ll need to build flood walls and levees, and all the infrastructure near the coasts will need to be overhauled. Or when water runs out in the American West? Climate change is coming to cost orders of magnitude more than preventing it. > It'd work to everyone's favor if a sound transition plan is agreed on, … Assuming you’re American, that’s not going to happen, because > … which gives the folks in the legacy industries preference to clean energy jobs/businesses. This was part of the platform of one party and the other still was not interested. Instead they whined about guns and abortion. Well, enjoy the future.

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