It is partisan though. The Republican Party works for billionaires, for which climate change is inconvenient and unprofitable, therefore the Republican Party is required to deny climate change on severity or existence, and most definitely on source. Otherwise severe and costly action would be required that would seriously impact the shareholders.
Its not left/right, but you do have parties that don't care about it. Its a different axis.
You have parties that outright deny that it is a real thing.
I'd love to hear of a single example, worldwide, of a right wing party that's fighting climate change.
Let's hear all about them.
What counts as fighting climate change? The last UK government did several things to help. They could have done more but they could have also done less. UK emissions have dropped pretty significantly per capita.
Is the Conservative party in the UK considered right wing?
Seems more center (if not center-left). Which is why Reform has sprung up, as a proper right wing party in the UK.
Last I checked, the UK Conservative party still largely supports the NHS. Literal socialized medicine. That's not the actions of a "right wing party" imo
They support selling off state assets. Hardly sounds like a left wing party.
Sounds exactly like center/center-left to me. But maybe my Overton window is skewed from living in a fascist dictatorship.
Got a right wing party that's actually doing something? All the Green parties I know of are left wing, so it's at least strongly correlated.
Conservatives did a little bit in the UK, so they clearly think it matters, just not as much as the green party does. Boris for all his many faults was even pretty into supporting bus and bike for transport when he was mayor of London. My heat pump was installed using a scheme introduced by the conservatives in 2022.
One party pays it lip-service, but the other party denies reality entirely. You're right, it's a bi-partisan effort to kill everything in the name of capital.
The real TLDR of this article is that talking to people in your own life is more effective and important than lobbying.
Like everyone else in this thread my initial reaction to the article title was to rant about politics, but:
There are many reasons, but one is the fact that polarized public discourse has made climate conversations more difficult
I'm easily baited titles that says "x need to stop y".
It doesn't matter if I agree, it just never works that way.
It’s physics. If you trap heat things warm up. If things warm up then climate changes, as shown in the geological record and experiments as well as climate models.
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If it’s not political then call it “global warming” instead of “climate change”, as the latter was pushed by conservatives to make it not sound so bad.
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.