Why Environmental Politics Matters

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2. The opponents of environmental regulations are organized,

connected, and well financed. The messages they create are widely disseminated, subtle, and insidious. The tactics they use are under-handed, disingenuous, and dishonorable. Their free-market "think-tanks" create messages to cast doubt on solid science and cast smears on environmental advocates. They use misdirection to frame the issue as liberty vs. communism, godliness vs. heathenism, etc. They feed their stories to the top of the media chain and they have the ear of the top of our political leadership.

Their plan has been very effective with a large part of the American public, who are convinced that concern for the environment is tantamount to a rejection of liberty and an embrace of socialism.