"... Worrying about the climate crisis shouldn’t be a partisan issue. But it is, at least in this country. As of last year, only 22 percent of Americans who considered themselves to be on the political right considered climate change a major threat; the left-right gap here was far larger than it was in other countries. And only in America do you see things like Texas Republicans actively trying to undermine their own state’s booming renewable energy sector. [snip]
"So we shouldn’t expect record heat waves around the globe to end assertions that climate change, even if it’s happening, is no big deal. Nor should we expect Republicans to soften their opposition to climate action, no matter what is happening in the world.
"What this means is that if the G.O.P. wins control of the White House and Congress next year, it will almost surely try to dismantle the array of green energy subsidies enacted by the Biden administration that experts believe will lead to a major reduction in emissions.
"Like
it or not, then, the weather is a political issue. And Americans should
be aware that it’s one of the most important issues they’ll be voting
on next November." -- Paul Krugman, New York Times, writing on "Why We Should Politicize The Weather." Decades of obstruction and sabotage by Republicans in service to their greedy allies and benefactors in the fossil fuel industry have led to this point. Expecting them to change their opposition to green energy is wishcasting at its most dangerous and deluded. Now that climate change is here with a vengeance, allowing them to escape the political consequences of their destructive policies would be absolute political malpractice by Democrats. There's such a thing as "evil" in the world, after all, as Republicans illustrate by their actions every day.
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