But, don’t say this is political issue or something. Here’s, humorously, DJ Jimmy Buff
The Green Life: Government must lead way on climate change
(Opening blather about Doom!)
The fixing requires something we’re lacking right now: Political will. Public acceptance of climate change is high, but nothing changes without governments leading the way because nothing that has needed to happen has ever happened without government making it so. From the end of slavery, the right for women to vote, the Civil Rights Act, the first clean water and air acts to marriage equality, government has said it must be so, and it was. It wasn’t the citizenry that had collectively decided to change — though many were in favor of the aforementioned progress — it was legislated.
Except, it was the citizens who cared. If it’s government forcing their opinions on We The People, then what you’re discussing is an authoritarian government. Which, of course, is part of what the Progressive movement is about: Government dominance, for “your own good”, of course.
There are big forces aligned against the government making changes. Notably, the Koch brothers have funded a group called Americans for Prosperity that has solicited and received the support of dozens of members of Congress on a thing they call the No Climate Tax Pledge, which states that signers “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”
In other words, how Dare!!!!! people use their Constitutionally protected voices. And Warmists wonder why we call them fascists.
In fact, the Warmist cult is dying out. Even those who believe in anthropogenic global warming, er, climate change, or whatever they want to call it, mostly refuse to do anything within their own lives, and more and more people are tired of hearing about all the doom and gloom. When polled, “climate change” typically comes in at the bottom. The latest Gallup poll shows
On the bright side, it’s ticked up 2%. But, still 14 out of 15 issues. Which is sad, considering that real environmental issues are important. Folding “climate change” into the issue damages it.
