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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHRISTINE SELLERS</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CONTRIBUTOR</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 19, 2022</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Caller released a new documentary that takes a deeper look at climate change as it relates to conservatism.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The documentary, entitled, “The Conservative Climate Conundrum,” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">features conservative environmentalist and president of the <b style="">American Conservation Coalition (ACC)</b>, Benjamin Backer. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the documentary, which is available via the Daily Caller’s YouTube channel, Backer interviews both climate scientists and climate change skeptics to understand what climate science actually says and why that matters for conservatives.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WATCH:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“There’s a lot of power in controlling the narrative and what we need to find out is do these two climate skeptics and the movement they represent deserve to control the narrative?” Backer said in the documentary. <b>Backer spoke with reported climate skeptics, Marc Morano, founder of Climate Depot and James Taylor, the president of the Heartland Institute.</b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“You do believe in climate change being human caused, you just, to clarify, you don’t believe that it has an existential threat on society,” Backer asked Taylor.</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Well, I believe that humans and particularly carbon dioxide are having some impact and are adding to a warming trend,” Taylor responded. “Really, if you go back to the 1700s[AS IN COALFIRED INDUSTRIAL REVO?], we’ve been in a warming trend since then,” he later added</b>. (RELATED: Twitter Rolls Out ‘Pre-Bunk’ Feature To Counter Climate Change Denial)</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Dr. Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shared a different perspective with Backer.</b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Civilization all around the world is extremely finely adapted to the remarkably stable climate that we have had in the last 7,000 years, and if you changed it much, in either direction, it doesn’t matter if you made it a lot colder or a lot warmer, it’s gonna be disruptive,” Emanuel said.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A United Nations (UN) report published in 2021 indicated that humans are “unequivocally responsible for Earth’s warming” and that temperatures would likely continue to rise until at least the mid-century, signaling a “code red for humanity.”</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>President Joe Biden announced a team assembled to combat climate change when he was elected in November 2020, dubbing issues surrounding climate as a “crisis.”</b></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, the Associated Press (AP) announced it had secured funding from a variety of progressive <b>special interest groups</b> to dedicate more coverage to climate change in February 2022.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><onion tweeted="tweeted" /></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tags : climate change documentary environmental concerns</font></p><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">De Janeiro in 1992, but then comes our second pivotal moment, the fossil fuel industry, enters the fight.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They realized with the potential consequences of seriously taking on climate change, would mean.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For their businesses and their bottom lines, and their shareholders.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:01</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And you start to see this mobilization on the right.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That's Jay Turner.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He's a historian who co-authored a book on Republicans and the environment called the Republican reversal,</b> which really helped me understand this history.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So in 1989 Exxon and other industry groups form.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:19</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This thing called the Global Climate Coalition to basically Lobby against action on global warming.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And the group's membership is like, a, who's who of the Entire us business Community, you know, it includes the Auto industry, major utilities the National Association of Manufacturers, the national coal Association, the Chamber of Commerce.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:39</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And they joined forces with a bunch of conservative think tanks, who were making the argument that's familiar from Reagan.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You know, that regulations are economically dangerous, especially when it comes to regulating fossil fuels, which touch almost everything, you know, they argued that the science on global warming wasn't clear enough yet to justify taking that kind of Step.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:58</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Up.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And that argument was really attractive to lots of policymakers at the time.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And it really suede key members of the Bush, White House and historian.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jay Turner says, you know, for the Bush Administration, to entertain that argument that actually wasn't totally unreasonable.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13:14</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given what we knew at the time, the state of climate science was, was uncertain at the time.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There was a strong scientific consensus that, you know, people were changing the climate, but how fast the climate was?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Going to change and what the consequences were going to be.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13:31</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That was much less.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clear.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so, you know, I think for the Bush Administration kind of doing a cost-benefit analysis, it was much easier to see the cost of Regulation is opposed to the consequences of not taking action and instead of acting with precaution.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13:48</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They prioritize what they saw is economic interests with the time.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This, I mean, this is something that, you know, we needed Keep talking about this idea that people talk about how expensive it is to address climate change, but without ever talking about how expensive it is.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">14:06</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If we don't address it, that's like the cheating way to do a cost-benefit analysis and like, only talk about the cough really not going to lead us to the answers that we need.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And to tell this part, I'm going to introduce you to someone a republican politician who Science, this shift firsthand.</font></font></font></font></div><div>19:22</div><div><b>Bob Inglis was a republican Congressman, representing a very red District in South Carolina.</b></div><div>Manufacturing district with people that really are holding on to God and guns, you know, and happily so, so, Bob Inglis enters our story, because 2008 was one of those moments when it seemed possible that you could have action on climate change despite the lobbying, despite all the interest that had come into.</div><div>19:50</div><div>Against that despite all that still there was sort of a consensus building that we need to take action in 2008.</div><div>Yeah.</div><div>And Bob Inglis was one of those Republican politicians who wanted to take action on climate change.</div><div>He had what he considered a conservative climate plan, but when he went home to talk to his district about it, he wasn't prepared for what he found.</div><div>20:09</div><div><b>It turned out that the politics of climate change, had shifted beneath him.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Climate change was always an uphill battle with his constituents, you know, they were worried about regulation or taxes, but it had never been so, Personal.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It seemed that I had crossed to the other side that I had crossed that cultural barrier.</span></div><div>20:26</div><div>That had been erected the saying that climate change was real honest.</div><div>Do something about it.</div><div>I mean, it wasn't like there was a ton of Republican Party Support.</div><div>Anyway, like what made this different so their agree with you wasn't like there was overwhelming support, but it wasn't culturally marked as something.</div><div>20:45</div><div><b>That's not our tribe.</b></div><div>Our tribe doesn't talk about climate change.</div><div>Our tribe talks about drill, baby, drill, and to English.</div><div><b>There was a clear explanation for what happened.</b></div><div><b>The Koch brothers.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Remember, we talked about them earlier, and we've mentioned how every time there was a new attempt to address climate change, the fossil fuel industry, ramped up, its efforts to stop that.</span></div><div>21:11</div><div>
</div><div>So Rio Kyoto, this is another moment like that around the time that English was talking to his district about his plan.</div><div>There was Another plan in Congress, that was getting a ton of attention.</div><div>It was called<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b> cap and trade</b> and for the first time it would have put a limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the US and that would have been a huge threat to the Koch, brothers business Empire.</span></div><div>21:35</div><div>So they were revving up opposition and they'd found a golden moment.</div><div>The financial crisis, a history-making 777 point nosedive.</div><div>The NASDAQ plunged, almost 10%, Remember this the Great Recession is what it later came to be known as but in this moment like right around 2008 2009.</div><div>21:59</div><div>It was just terrifying like all of a sudden, these huge institutions were just like failing these gigantic Banks.</div><div>And on top of that, the only way to Stave off, what people at the time were referring to as possibly the Next Great Depression was to take those same institutions that have behaved incredibly recklessly and gotten themselves into trouble and bail them out to the tune of billions and billions of dollars and it just struck people as like you guys are the ones who got us into this mess.</div><div>And now we have to like lend you all this money so that you don't drag us all down with you.</div><div>It just felt like unbelievably unfair to people in both parties.</div><div>22:37</div><div><b>Yeah, and the Koch brothers, really took advantage of that anger on the Republican side by funding the Tea Party.</b></div><div>The conservative revolt against the bank bailouts against President Obama against his trademark health care plan and against cap and trade.</div><div>22:54</div><div><b>So one group, they funded Americans for Prosperity.</b></div><div><b>Mount did this campaign in 2009 and 2010 called The Hot Air Tour to Rally</b> people against the cap and trade Bill in Congress.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And the argument they were making is not regulations will make it harder to do business.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">23:10</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">No, but it was, this is a threat to your way of life.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It's going to raise the cost of gas.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It's going to raise the cost to heat your homes.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It is going to make your very way of life impossible.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Why do you feel <b>It's your right to tell us what to drive, what to eat where we can live and how much energy we can use to heat our hom</b>es?</div><div>23:29</div><div>If you're tired of the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> hypocrisy of Al Gore, please, join Americans for Prosperity.</span></div><div>And sine are, they were literally going from town to town with a hot air balloon and rallying people against cap-and-trade.</div><div><b>They called it cap-and-tax Evil Geniuses.</b></div><div>23:46</div><div>They named everything so.</div><div>Well, like the way they phrase it, you're like, why would It is?</div><div>It is hot air.</div><div>It is it is a terrible tax.</div><div>Why would we can think up and tax?</div><div>Their PR is so good.</div><div>Yeah, and it is very successful Bob Inglis.</div><div>24:02</div><div>He loses his seat in the primary and cap-and-trade dies in the Senate and Bob Inglis, and<b> historians.</b></div><div><b>I spoke to talk about this moment as a watershed</b>, right?</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Like this is the moment when climate change shifts from a policy debate to sort of a culture where debate when it becomes like a part of your identity</span>, whether you Leaving it or not.</div><div>24:22</div><div>And body was talks about it as just sort of like perfect sort of <b>perfect timing for the Koch, brothers to come in.</b></div><div>This is how he describes it in 2008.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">High tide a discontent with the government and distrust and all they need to do is spend a little bit of money to create a wave of rejection</span>.</div><div>24:43</div><div><b>Cultural rejection of climate change, and it came over that sea wall, in short it out, all the climate change equipment.</b></div><div>And we've been bailing ever since that's really what happened.</div><div><b>So they just saw their opportunity and they took it and it was a well-timed shot.</b></div><div>25:01</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They took and they succeeded in delaying climate now for well, over a decade.</span></div><div>And so that moment this sort of<b> third pivotal moment is when action on climate change became not just a threat to the economy but a threat to your way of life</b>, you know, to your So Rachel, thank you.</div><div>25:23</div><div>This has been incredibly interesting / completely horrifying, right?</div><div>But it's really, it really does help explain.</div><div>I think.</div><div>Yeah.</div><div>Oh, that is what happened.</div><div><b>It was like, these two strands of corporate money and conservative ideology that merged.</b></div><div>25:42</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">And then they found this perfect inflection point with the financial crisis that transformed it from like a policy thing that people disagreed about to and actual Badge of cultural identity.</span></div><div>Thanks so much for digging, all of this up and explain it to us, Rachel.</div><div>Yeah, of course, of course, like now I won't be able to sleep but but I remain grateful.</div><div>26:05...</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/episodes">
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</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p class="summary-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.1em 0px 0.7rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">afp bus tour gas, heat house tired of al gore hypocrisy, "cap and Tax" --> policy fight to threat to your way of life;  kochs take advantage of crisis --> culture war /part of identity 2008 high tide of gov't distrust, so small am't of money (goes over sea wall and flooded agw action machinery metaphor Inglis; </font><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">[<b>RepublicEN</b> inglis talk to crazy uncle]</span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p class="summary-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.1em 0px 0.7rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>am conservation coalition  ACC</b> 10yo gop activist noted at cpacs nothing on envir except to trash/denial;  testimony w/ greta so press but he called out both side i call BS dems have not tried to work w/ gop [b/c preserve as an issue to beat up?] <b>benjy backer did TP  Express bus tour in HS </b>[vs afp?] all about owning the libs, moved to seattle for college , trump cand [biz enviro class], pro nuke, grover attack on twit'   benjy sez gop only hear from left/green ngo's and they won't work w/ me?</font></font></font></font></font></font></p></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5/20 deja vu</font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">s<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://insideclimatenews.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=6e9a8334d0&e=06876ede6b" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ome Young Republicans Embrace a Slower, Gentler Brand of Climate Activism</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></font></div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BY: JAMES BRUGGERS</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bucking GOP elders, they’ve drafted the American Climate Contract as the right’s response to the Green New Deal.</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">L</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OUISVILLE, Kentucky—As a teenager, amid the hardwood forests, waterfalls and wildflower meadows of the Parklands of Floyds Fork, Benjamin Myles took a liking to nature.</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the University of Louisville, Myles merged his libertarian-leaning politics with a curiosity about climate change, a subject that kept coming up in English class and in debates with his friends.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Such discussions led him to a new national movement of young conservatives who are working to persuade their Republican elders to put forward a climate agenda, without sacrificing traditional GOP principles like market competition and limited government.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>myles, a junior studying political science and economics, has joined the American Conservation Coalition, which last month unveiled its American Climate Contract, a self-described response to the Green New Deal for the political right.</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The coalition has issued its manifesto in a presidential election year, when the stakes couldn't be higher. While President Trump remains a resolute climate change denier, there is a wide consensus among</span><a href="https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> scientists</a>, and<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122019/military-climate-change-unprepared-national-security-conflict-heat-risk-war-college-2019-year-review" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> also in the military</a>, that climate change is happening now, causing higher temperatures and heat waves, sea-level rise, an increasing frequency of extreme rains, wetter and more intense hurricanes, and longer droughts. </font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myles now finds himself questioning another icon of the Republican party and one of the country's most powerful political figures: U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader also from Louisville known for working to block the president who achieved the most on climate change, Barack Obama.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Myles, the president of the local college libertarian group, Young Americans for Liberty, is no fan of the Democrats' approach to the issue, or the Green New Deal's proposed massive shift in federal spending to create jobs and hasten a transition to clean energy by 2050. But Myles said he is frustrated by any established Republican who does not take climate change seriously, including McConnell.</b></font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"There is definitely frustration for myself and younger people who look at this issue and see the Republican Party, especially older GOP members, just ignoring it instead of offering an alternative," he said.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Our political system is all about providing multiple options," Myles said. "But when one side decides it doesn't want to discuss the truth of the problem at all, it feeds into the other side getting a monopoly on the discussion. That is really damaging."</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Across the South, Climate Change Divides Democrats and Republicans</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the South and across much of the United States, one way to try to tell a Republican from a Democrat is to invite a discussion about climate change.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Pew Research Center polling in February</span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/28/more-americans-see-climate-change-as-a-priority-but-democrats-are-much-more-concerned-than-republicans/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> found</a> that a growing number of Americans say tackling climate change should be a top priority for the president and Congress. But that change in views is mostly among Democrats: roughly 4 out of 5 say dealing with climate change should be a top priority, compared to just 1 out of 5 Republicans, Pew found.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate change wasn't always so divisive.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In 2008, for example, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, and former Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican, famously sat on a couch in front of the U.S. Capitol,</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n-wB154" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> declaring</a> they both agreed the country needed to take action on climate change</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. And they did it for Al Gore, the former vice president and global warming evangelist from Tennessee, who became conservatives' climate-change punching bag</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, young climate activists, led by Greta Thunberg and the Sunrise Movement—a grassroots youth climate action group that formed after Trump's 2016 election—are the defiant voice for the climate, calling for a transformation of the global economy. They are carrying out global student strikes and persuading mayors to declare climate emergencies.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The demographics of climate politics are shifting, said Ed Maibach, professor and director of the George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communications. </font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><div class="media media-element-container media-image_centered_medium" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 648px; margin: 0.25em auto;"><figure id="file-274511" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" class="file file-image file-image-png" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/styles/colorbox_full/public/unnamed_0.png?itok=UB5gtjG0" class="colorbox init-colorbox-processed cboxElement" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="A Climate Change Divide" title="A Climate Change Divide" height="654" width="529" class="media-element file-image-centered-medium" data-delta="2" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/files/styles/icn_centered_medium/public/unnamed_0.png?itok=kJ5056ao" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto;" /></font></a></font></font></font></font></font></figure></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">While young Democrats and their parents and grandparents are "more or less all apoplectically concerned" about the climate, he said, a new</span><a href="https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/young-adults-across-party-lines-are-more-willing-to-take-climate-action/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> report</a> from the George Mason center and the Yale Program on Climate Communication identifies how young Republicans are becoming emboldened by the issue.  In contrast to older Republicans, they have become more accepting of the human causes of climate change, rejecting the climate science denial that has taken hold in the party, Maibach said.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The more young Democrats get involved in the issue, the more young Republicans get pulled along," he added.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Both parties will have plenty to debate this year as voters in November decide whether to give Trump and his fossil fuel agenda another four years. Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the former vice president, has described the Green New Deal as "a crucial framework" for climate action as he tries to </span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09042020/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-climate-change" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">convince</a> climate voters he's a true believer.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Market Approach to Climate Change Mitigation </font></span></font></font></font></font></font></h3><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The</span><a href="https://www.acc.eco/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> American Conservation Coalition</a> was founded in 2017 b<b>y Benji Backer,</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a 22-year-old from Appleton, Wisconsin, who was already a veteran in national political circles. </span></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In 2014, at 16, Backer</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIZ1EjRT_eY" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> delivered</a> a fiery speech at the influential American Conservative Union conference, defending former Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's bitter and successful battle against unionized teachers and declaring it "OK to stand up to those on the left that would scream us into quiet submission.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">But in September, he</span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?464405-1/youth-activists-urge-lawmakers-action-climate-change" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> testified</a> before Congress<b> with </b>Thunberg [trashes her in his doc], arguing that "we cannot regulate our way out of climate change."</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The group and its climate contract have supporters ranging from natural gas lobbyists and libertarians to conservation and energy efficiency groups. </b></font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of them is the Rocky Mountain Institute, a Colorado-based clean-energy think tank founded by physicist Amory Lovins. The institute's Paul Bodner, who worked on energy and climate in the White House for President Obama, is on the coalition's advisory board. He hopes he can help the young conservatives find their voice on climate issues.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The institute, he said, agrees with the Green New Deal's "call to action" and shares its vision of "radical decarbonization of the U.S. economy," but also agrees with the coalition's "focus on unleashing market forces."</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington based think tank, also supports the young conservatives.</b></font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"When we see historically controversial policies that are pushed through by one party in a very politicized or polarized manner, those policies are more at risk of being undone, or vilified, at some point in the future," said Sasha Mackler, the center's director of energy projects. "For policies to be enduring over the long term, which is really what we need for a climate solution to be effective, bipartisanship is essential."</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'We Would Rather Not Get Caught up in Debates'</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></h3><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The young conservatives' </span><a href="https://www.climatesolution.eco/the-american-climate-contract" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">contract</a> makes no mention of the 2016 Paris climate agreement, with its goal of limiting rising global temperatures to well below 2 degrees Celsius. Nor does it share the sense of urgency expressed by scientists, who, in 2018, concluded that the world had about 12 years to get on a path toward zero carbon emissions by 2050</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Instead, the contract merely acknowledges the need to "move towards the goal of global net-zero carbon emissions by 2050."</b></font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres109/BILLS-116hres109ih.xml" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Green New Deal</a> envisions a rapid transition to a carbon-free economy, promising jobs and economic security and explicitly supporting an economic transition in communities that have long lived on incomes from fossil fuel industries. </font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By contrast, the contract modestly calls for "targeted investment and regulatory streamlining;" increasing clean transportation; creating a more energy-saving electrical grid; maximizing carbon storage in forests and farms; planting trees; supporting nuclear power; and establishing private-public partnerships.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"We would rather not get caught up in debates on targets</b> that are too much for one side of the aisle or the other," said Danielle Butcher, chief operating officer of the American Conservation Coalition. "We view this not as a silver bullet to climate policy."</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The contract also does not recommend a</span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04032019/green-new-deal-carbon-tax-compromise-climate-policy-congress-ocasio-cortez-sunrise-ccl-economists" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> carbon tax</a>, which some moderates and Republicans have begun to embrace as a way to put a price on carbon and steer the economy toward a lower-carbon future.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We want to focus on the steps we can take right now," Butcher said.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The contract's modest scope is its failing, critics counter.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fighting climate change and economic injustice go hand-in-hand, said  Sophie Karasek, a spokeswoman for the Sunrise Movement, which has rallied around the Green New Deal.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A lot of young people have grown up with the fear of the climate crisis, and we already lived through the great recession, and remember what that felt like," Karasek said.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What's needed are "bold solutions from the government at the scale of the problems we face, and right now (with the Covid-19 pandemic) we are facing a great depression while also staring down the barrel of climate change," she said. "We don't have time to talk about private-public partnerships, or whatever."</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.333;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitch McConnell Has Been Setting the GOP Agenda on Climate</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Tennessee, Sage Kafsky, a 23-year-old volunteer with the American Conservation Coalition, echoed her young colleagues' calls for market based, limited government solutions. But she also declared an admiration for Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose defiance before the most powerful business and political leaders on the planet became the face of a new generation fighting climate change. </font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I 100 percent believe in climate change," Kafsky said in a telephone interview from her home in Ducktown, Tennessee, in the southern Appalachian Mountains, where she works as a paraprofessional in an elementary school. "I believe in people like Greta, who are having their voice, saying this is a major issue, and we need to fix it."</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But,</b> she went on to say, "how to get there gets lost in translation" amid political polarization, even though "we have similar goals in mind."</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Washington, D.C., it has been McConnell, 78, the coal-friendly Senate Republican Leader since 2006 and Majority Leader since 2015, who has, in effect, been setting the Republican legislative agenda on climate.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;">For example, he led the opposition to Obama's climate and coal policies, then</span><a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2017/05/26/mcconnell-paul-urge-trump-back-out-paris-climate-agreement/349668001/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> backed</a> Trump on pulling out of the Paris agreement. Last year McConnell<a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25032019/green-new-deal-senate-vote-mcconnell-climate-change-policy" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> went</a> out of his way to force Democrats to make a premature and what he hoped would be a politically damaging vote on the Green New Deal, while not offering alternative climate legislation.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McConnell is up for reelection to a seventh term in November. A spokesman declined to comment on the young conservatives' efforts, except to say that the way to address climate change "is through technology and innovation."</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But words alone may not be enough for the GOP's new generation.</font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Butcher, of the conservation coalition, said the group has met with White House and McConnell staff to find policies that will reduce emissions and create economic prosperity. "Given the overwhelming consensus among young Republicans that climate is a top priority, we expect they'll increasingly engage on the issue, and if not, we'll push harder," she said.</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d41d1c81-7fff-d255-3a48-2f440cd06aac" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myles, the libertarian-climate activist from the University of Louisville, came to see climate change as an issue the GOP couldn't ignore or deny. "Getting into college and seeing how many other people care about it made me realize this is going to be a major issue and something that has the ability to affect all of us," he said. 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