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> If the people who advocate addressing climate change actually believed this, ... They’d be willing to compromise on everything else to gather the broadest pos
by yongjik 4y ago
> If the people who advocate addressing climate change actually believed this, ... They’d be willing to compromise on everything else to gather the broadest possible support base for solutions.
"If anyone believes X is the most important, they must acquiesce to my every demand, otherwise they're lying!"
Seriously, why are we even entertaining this level of discourse?
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- JamesBarney 4y agoThere's a difference between most important and existential. If you truly believe the world will end unless you solve a specific problem. You should be highly motivated to solve that problem and willing to make even extreme sacrifices to get that done. For instance I grew up in the Catholic church and knew plenty of single issue voters. Pro-life voters would vote for anyone, no matter how much they despised them or disagreed with all their other politics, as long as they promised to try to ban abortion. I don't really see this on the climate change side. They say it's existential threat but they don't act like it.
- rayiner 4y agoThe pro life folks are a good example. The pro life movement has worked with everyone from free market republicans to labor democrats to black nationalists. Whatever you think of their policy, they believe their cause is existential and they act like it.