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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA likely fact about the future that sickens me.
When clean energy is the only energy, when electric transport is the only transport, and there is no longer any financial incentive to deny climate change, conservatives will insist it was liberals who denied it and try to blame the state of the environment on liberalism.
rogerashton
(3,942 posts)nt
enough
(13,447 posts)True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Conservatism follows the money, always, and the money behind clean energy will be more than all the money that ever existed in fossil fuels combined. Plus, as a heavy infrastructure industry, it wouldn't have the same kind of intrinsic cultural aversions for them that most of Silicon Valley does.
marym625
(17,997 posts)rogerashton
(3,942 posts)it assumes that we will make the transition to an all-renewable-resources economy and, having done so, we will continue to have open political controversy as before. Pessimists might see an ecological collapse and political disintegration. Dictatorship of some kind would be a slightly less pessimistic view. I do hope that the original post was right -- that we and the conservatives really will survive and live in a world that allows us to disagree on whose fault all those problems were, that we have since solved!
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)penetrates into the economy. I.e., less likely every day.
We're still in a critical transitional period, but I would start breathing somewhat easier if/when (knock on wood) Tesla has three Gigafactories and clean energy has about 10% of the market.
That's not nearly enough to avert radical climate change, but it's enough to form a durable, self-sustaining economic kernel if society were suddenly disrupted.
So, I am an optimist, but my scenario is not optimistic - it's my objective conclusion.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)http://www.salon.com/2014/09/16/wretched_disgusting_commie_leftists_my_nightmare_fighting_gun_nuts_in_a_red_state/
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Adam051188
(711 posts)because conservatives will still control everything that is privately owned and thusly will control the dialogue. The american liberal is a fool who knows not where his allegiance lies. Capitalism is their enemy and they still can't figure that out.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)I see no reason to believe the Twistory writers will change anytime soon.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)But, then again, I'd suspect that by then, when clean transport finally dominates and clean energy is on top of the hill, conservatism, as we knew it, will probably have permanently receded into the sunset, never to really return.
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)adapt at lies, distortions and misinformation as they dwell in the lower orbs of life.
littlemissmartypants
(24,926 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)And just let it work its way in. Turn the lights down low, turn off all electronic devices save the stereo, and let it flow.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)No one could get away with such a ridiculous claim if the media was actually fair and balanced.
applegrove
(122,629 posts)will cause something to happen intentionally and then blame the victim and get others to judge the victim for choosing to live on the coast below sea level.