If ‘climate change’ is so darned important, why is 2020 not about ‘climate change’? Oh, right, because most people care only in theory, not practice, and don’t want to even spend $10 a month of their own money on “solving” it. But, the Cult of Climastrology will keep pushing pushing pushing
2020 Will Be the Last Election That’s Not About Climate Change
It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to notice he was not named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2019.
So, of course this piece starts out with some Trump Derangement Syndrome. That goes a couple more paragraphs, let’s skip them
That article was real. “In a world where hundreds of millions of human beings still go hungry and the global recession has left all but the wealthiest fearing for their future, it’s easy to wonder why we should be concerned about the dwindling of the planet’s biodiversity,†Bryan Walsh wrote from Madagascar in 2009. “The answer is that we can’t afford not to.â€
The substance of that argument hasn’t changed in the last decade, only its urgency. “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing,†Thunberg told the United Nations in September. “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!â€
So, what did Obama and the rest of the climate scam believing world leaders do?
Yet, as an election looms in 2020, money and fairy tales about economic growth are still most likely motivating voters, not climate change. But things are changing. It’s almost inevitable that this will be the last election where climate change is not the top issue at the ballot box.
Haven’t we heard this for 30 years?
In November, polling firm Engagious hosted a focus group of swing voters in Youngstown, Ohio. A few of them supported Thunberg, but also said she shouldn’t be the face of the global climate movement. “You have to win hearts and minds,†one man said. “It’s as much marketing as it is education… In this kind of argument, where you have people say it’s a hoax and people who say the world is coming to an end, you have to be able to persuade.â€
And yet it seems Thunberg has been persuasive. She’s inspired millions of people to march in climate protests across the planet. Her success is no doubt partly due to her being so young, so firm, and so committed to her cause, and she deserves the accolades she has received. At the same time, Thunberg appears to be pushing against an open door, globally and in the United States.
And yet it seems that most of those young people aren’t actually making changes in their own lives, just marching and Demanding stuff that affects Other People. So, pretty much business as usual with members of the Cult of Climastrology.
Despite the ongoing blind fealty Republicans in Washington, D.C. pay to Trump, his decisions to remove the United States from the Paris climate accord, or to roll back offshore drilling regulations, or to allow for more logging on federal lands, may start to play badly within his party — particularly with its youth wing. This year, Pew found that younger Republicans are more likely to support climate-conscious policies. They’re less likely to support expanding coal mining than their older GOP peers, and more likely to support expanding solar farms. Millennial Republicans are also more likely than older Republicans to say that climate change is having “at least some effect†on their community.
And then they enter the Real World and put away childish things.
Climate change, David Wallace-Wells writes in The Uninhabitable Earth, is “not merely one challenge among many facing a planet already struggling with civil strife and war and horrifying inequality and far too many other insoluble hardships to iterate, but the all-encompassing stage on which all those challenges will be met — a whole sphere, in other words, which literally contains within it all of the world’s future problems and all of its possible solutions.â€
Climate cultists like to place every issue under the banner of Hotcoldwetdry. But, if they think this and young voters will somehow make it a major force in elections after 2020, well, good luck. People really do not care that much.
You know what this does show, though? That this is all about politics, not science.
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