After listening to the podcast “Why is this Happening? with Chris Hayes, he brings on climate expert Andrew Revkin to explore climate change as a whole. Talking about literally everything about it, from the journalism aspect, why it happens, people who talk about it, or influences on it etc. They bring some interesting points to the overall conversation about climate change in general. They begin to scold Republicans who try to dismantle climate change as a hoax, because of tribal belief they have in the party. Where you don’t want to be the person who is out there fighting a fight nobody else from your allegiance is. Even more of a debacle is the educated Republicans being even worse of a denialist than less educated Republicans; which is just scary.
Another point they delve into is the fact that people just aren’t interested in climate all that much. If you had to pick one problem to change in the world; a lot of people would say climate change. But, they just aren’t that excited about it coming from a reading stand point or hearing about it on the news.
Finally, Chris Hayes and Andrew Revkin end it on what they think is the only way for change to happen. Chris believes a technological solution will have to happen that takes carbon out of the atmosphere, along with cheap scalable renewable energy. Andrew Revkin believes the same thing, but factoring in social and behavioral science. Once again, we have to hope our libertarians can generate a fight in office for change to our planet.. or we might not have one.
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