Liberals and Climate Change

What liberals get wrong about climate change

Amy Harder, August 21, 2017 (Axios)

“Democrats and environmental groups too often let their ideological agendas get in the way of addressing climate change…Republicans are the bigger sinners in this debate because most of them refuse to acknowledge [climate change and humans' role driving it]…The left faces an inherently different and trickier problem…[There are problems] hobbling their push to address climate change…Beltway Democrats and green groups have increasingly backed renewables at the expense of technologies that economic modeling says will be needed…Many climate activists, aided by left-leaning media coverage, paint doomsday scenarios and call for unrealistic policy prescriptions that are ineffective at raising concern…Democrats and environmentalists often seek to build large, diverse coalitions to push climate policies that…crumble under their own weight…” click here for more

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