Climate Deniers Are Not The Problem
Frequently, we hear that climate deniers are the problem, that we could make progress on climate change if enough people would believe that it’s real
I think sufficient numbers of people believe climate change is real. But the party that pretends to believe it is offering people nothing that makes a difference in their lives. The party should make a difference in people’s lives and then see how many will follow. Start with healthcare and a living wage. Free nonviolent inmates. End the war on drugs, a huge emitter of carbon, as is the pentagon. Give people a federal jobs guarantee where they can do meaningful work for a living wage. This would take power away from the worst corporations that currently get to decide what jobs are worth doing. They should not have that power.
All of the above is cheap, compared with paying the price of ecological and social devastation. But you have to decide that people come first.