Doubling down on climate won't win the Senate

climate activists can often seem more interested in maintaining the moral high ground than in bringing along people who think differently. Marshall notes that the climate movement often displays contempt for the right-leaning mainstream and their concerns, talking acidly about conservatives’ selfishness, greed, or stupidity – in the process ignorin

exacerbate the inequitable distribution of suffering. There is no question that the climate is going to change, and bring with it a lot of suffering. The question is how we navigate it.

The climate crisis isn’t a matter of intelligence—an average eighth-grader can understand what our carbon emissions are doing to the atmosphere. What makes the crisis so daunting is that it can be understood in a variety of ways: as a failure of global governance, a failure to properly price carbon emissions, a contest between rich nations and poor

It is clearer that the climate is changing, and I am open to the claim that it is changing in a calamitous direction, but I am not certain. Many of the press releases are drawn from very limited studies relating a few variables. In isolation, they create a compelling argument for outcomes that would harm human beings. But given that there is no com