Also, not doing global warming is probably a great way to avoid mass migration.
Too bad too many of the right-wingers have hyped themselves, not into thinking that we just don’t need to do anything about it, but into believing that it doesn’t exist.
Because I could use “but this will cause mass migration” on them as leverage to cut CO2 emissions. Or “but China will engage in geoengineering,” or “but this will fuck up your hunting and fishing,” possibly even. The original conservationism was apparently supported by hunters, seeing as one needs animals in order to have animals to hunt.
Yep. It’s a pickle.
They think it’s a left-wing plot to scare people into going along with a global system of governance, restrict access to resources as a form of rationing, and satisfy lefties’ desires to be self-righteous blah blah etc.
In other words, a lot of their hesitation is one meta-level up.
…and I’m not really sure how to address it. I can’t convince them that the leftists and progressives don’t really want Social Democracy because, uh, they kinda do want Social Democracy. And I can’t convince them that they wouldn’t be hype for a global carbon emissions trading regime and attempt to weaponize it because, well, lots of them would be hype for it and political operatives would intend to weaponize it. Political operatives do that.
We’re lucky solar is improving at the rate that it is, and also that fission power still exists.