Don’t forget, none of this is happening in a vacuum. The fossil fuel industry has spent billions of dollars trying to delay accountability and that has had a hu

Don’t forget, none of this is happening in a vacuum. The fossil fuel industry has spent billions of dollars trying to delay accountability and that has had a huge impact on the makeup of the Congress. The Republican Party didn’t used to be the anti-science party – that took decades of ideological filtering, setting up an alternative media environment and quasi-intellectual think tank career path, etc. to ensure that the people who get elected are the ones who represent the interests of certain businesses and training voters that the true unforgivable offense was bipartisan compromise on any issue. That wasn’t just fossil fuels - tobacco paid for a lot of it, including many of the same erstwhile “science experts” – and other factors played in (Obama’s election really stepped up the pressure not to be bipartisan even on previously innocuous things) but the important thing to remember is that it’s no more natural than a rose garden and requires constant maintenance.