Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will recommend […]
Of all the Republican insanity, climate denial is the biggest head scratcher for me. It’s denying cause and effect. And they need a planet to live on too.
imagine a worldview where the most important thing is people respecting you as a man. Rugged jobs like coal mining or oil rig work. Driving heavy duty, loud, smoke spewing trucks or muscle cars. Eating the largest, most expensive meat, to fuel your very important muscles. Proving your worth through hard work instead of smarts. Throw in the gay rights movement, and now trans rights, now they feel like masculinity itself is being threatened. They want to keep eating steaks, they like driving their big truck, they dont want to respect non-masculine peers who dont work as hard as they do. I give you the driving force of rural America, and the wealthy people tapping into it.
I don’t disagree per se…but I think the climate change denial has more to do with being anti-democrat/liberal than being a man. Conservative women are also climate change deniers.
Like if you were to ask them if the earth is worth protecting, recycling, blah blah blah, they’d say yes. But as soon as you mention global warming, they say it’s woke.
That’s what I don’t understand, either. Even if they were a totally cynical asshole about it, a Republican should love the idea of getting rich by fleecing progressive “idiots”.
Hell, I’ve imagined designing Trump hats, shirts, and bumper stickers just to make money off his popularity, and then donating to a cause or charity Republicans despise.
It may have the worst ultimate consequences of much of the Republican insanity, but unfortunately I don’t think it’s confusing at all.
Do something for the good of the entire world, or to put some money in the pockets of people who already have more than they can ever spend? Easy choice.
Oh, the entire world can see that we made the bad choice on #1? Sooooo… guess what guys the bad consequences don’t actually exist! :D
Of all the Republican insanity, climate denial is the biggest head scratcher for me. It’s denying cause and effect. And they need a planet to live on too.
they benefit too much from fossil fuels
Cool. They’ll be taking it with them to the grave.
And us with it, but they don’t care because “they got theirs”
imagine a worldview where the most important thing is people respecting you as a man. Rugged jobs like coal mining or oil rig work. Driving heavy duty, loud, smoke spewing trucks or muscle cars. Eating the largest, most expensive meat, to fuel your very important muscles. Proving your worth through hard work instead of smarts. Throw in the gay rights movement, and now trans rights, now they feel like masculinity itself is being threatened. They want to keep eating steaks, they like driving their big truck, they dont want to respect non-masculine peers who dont work as hard as they do. I give you the driving force of rural America, and the wealthy people tapping into it.
I don’t disagree per se…but I think the climate change denial has more to do with being anti-democrat/liberal than being a man. Conservative women are also climate change deniers.
Like if you were to ask them if the earth is worth protecting, recycling, blah blah blah, they’d say yes. But as soon as you mention global warming, they say it’s woke.
Plus, remediation ought to check all their boxes
— huge business opportunities
— new jobs
— energy independence
— reducing our dependency on Chinese companies
But none of those things are important to Republicans. That’s just stuff they say.
That’s what I don’t understand, either. Even if they were a totally cynical asshole about it, a Republican should love the idea of getting rich by fleecing progressive “idiots”.
Hell, I’ve imagined designing Trump hats, shirts, and bumper stickers just to make money off his popularity, and then donating to a cause or charity Republicans despise.
It may have the worst ultimate consequences of much of the Republican insanity, but unfortunately I don’t think it’s confusing at all.
Do something for the good of the entire world, or to put some money in the pockets of people who already have more than they can ever spend? Easy choice.
Oh, the entire world can see that we made the bad choice on #1? Sooooo… guess what guys the bad consequences don’t actually exist! :D
Their donors are mostly old, rich people. So they don’t care about what happens more than about 10-15 years in the future.