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Do that and all support for the environment goes completely out the window. Do this and that's pretty much the end for any kind of green transition.
by ars 2y ago
Do that and all support for the environment goes completely out the window.
Do this and that's pretty much the end for any kind of green transition.
- immibis 2y agoIs this a valid generic political argument? Do the bad thing or the bad people will support your bad opposition and do the bad thing anyway? No wonder there's so much bad.
- 7952 2y agoThe problem is that there is no agreement on what bad actually is. An individual may consider that a loss of their job is worse than global climate change. The environmental sphere is full of arguments that would ideally be a false dichotomy but are not. Politics is the mechanism we have for deciding what is bad. It isn't very good but it is the best we have.
- nothercastle 2y agoAbsolutely extreme environmental policy alienates most moderates. Shut it down and have poor people freeze or die from heat isn’t going to win a lot of moderate support
- immibis 2y agoThen the winning strategy is to make the opposite side appear as extreme as possible and alienate moderates.