Solar, wind would help. Storage would help too. Permitting reform would help. Nuclear would help. So many places for what once would have been bipartisan. In fact, the left gets in the way of some of this as much as the right. It should not be partisan. It’s like COVID and vaccines. It’s f-ing crazy that science is now a polarized political issue.
It isn't the Left's fault these are partisan issues. The GOP has had a huge contingent of climate deniers for a really long time. Those same folks hate renewables as "green commie tash", especially the "ugly" wind farms. Just throwing away all the scientific advancements that built our way of life.
I absolutely agree that the vast majority of the problem since 2009 or 2010 has definitely been the fossil fuel funded GOP. And, yes, renewables themselves are wholly supported by the left. But the left does tend to ignore, at best, the other things we absolutely need in order to decarbonize. .
Food Water Watch actively opposed carbon pricing. Other groups remained tepid at best. Land conservation groups regularly oppose transmission. Nuclear has absolutely been slowed by left opposition.
Heck, in my own Indivisible group, if I say the word “nuclear,” you can suddenly hear a pin drop. Or someone says “I spent my life fighting nuclear.” These are folks who also support lgbtq rights, abortion rights, have BLM banners at their homes.
I will say that the IRA, along with BIL and CHIPs, was a huge step forward. That was Dems. 100%. And in that, we saw the full fruition of the GOP’s failure on this, the one that began in earnest with Norquist’s pledge to oppose carbon taxes onto which the vast majority of GOPs signed.
Just a year before that, both the GOP and Dem candidates for POTUS ran on a platform that included a carbon tax.
That would have been a bipartisan way to support solar and wind, as well as transmission and nuclear. And anything that would have reduced emissions.
Solar, wind would help. Storage would help too. Permitting reform would help. Nuclear would help. So many places for what once would have been bipartisan. In fact, the left gets in the way of some of this as much as the right. It should not be partisan. It’s like COVID and vaccines. It’s f-ing crazy that science is now a polarized political issue.
It isn't the Left's fault these are partisan issues. The GOP has had a huge contingent of climate deniers for a really long time. Those same folks hate renewables as "green commie tash", especially the "ugly" wind farms. Just throwing away all the scientific advancements that built our way of life.
I absolutely agree that the vast majority of the problem since 2009 or 2010 has definitely been the fossil fuel funded GOP. And, yes, renewables themselves are wholly supported by the left. But the left does tend to ignore, at best, the other things we absolutely need in order to decarbonize. .
Food Water Watch actively opposed carbon pricing. Other groups remained tepid at best. Land conservation groups regularly oppose transmission. Nuclear has absolutely been slowed by left opposition.
Heck, in my own Indivisible group, if I say the word “nuclear,” you can suddenly hear a pin drop. Or someone says “I spent my life fighting nuclear.” These are folks who also support lgbtq rights, abortion rights, have BLM banners at their homes.
I will say that the IRA, along with BIL and CHIPs, was a huge step forward. That was Dems. 100%. And in that, we saw the full fruition of the GOP’s failure on this, the one that began in earnest with Norquist’s pledge to oppose carbon taxes onto which the vast majority of GOPs signed.
Just a year before that, both the GOP and Dem candidates for POTUS ran on a platform that included a carbon tax.
That would have been a bipartisan way to support solar and wind, as well as transmission and nuclear. And anything that would have reduced emissions.