>If the people who advocate addressing climate change actually believed this, they wouldn’t constantly be trying to tie it to other unpopular issues. Unfortuna

>If the people who advocate addressing climate change actually believed this, they wouldn’t constantly be trying to tie it to other unpopular issues. Unfortunately, those of us who do believe this are a small minority. That's why it gets tied to other issues: it's coalition-building and the dynamics of advocacy. That's also a big reason why my other favorite cause is election reform, because it can help climate-change targeted reform become less partisan. >Based on my understanding of “the science” economic development in the third world will still leave those people better off even accounting for climate change impacts. If we had had economic development to the degree we now think of as "normal" in the third world starting in the 1960s, we would be looking at a very different, less frightening situation. But something went wrong. Currently, and particularly considering the events of this year, we don't seem to have solved geopolitical instability in the general case. Hopefully, the third world keeps developing. I'd still like to have a plan B.