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Climate Change: From a Former Conservative
Politics that put us all in danger
Is climate change a threat to humanity? I believe that it is.
That wasn’t always my stance.
I was young during the Aquanet years of the ’80s. I remember the ozone layer discussion that morphed into global warming. I believed it then and wanted to do something about it, like chastising my mother whenever she used hairspray.
As I got older and liberal politics became more identity-focused, I began to lean more conservative. That’s when my views on the climate started to change, as well.
What a dangerous reality: disagreeing with one element of a specific philosophy can lead to changes in your entire philosophic outlook.
That’s what happens when we allow the talking heads on TV to tell us what to think.
What the conservative pundits say
Political parties are nothing without someone to define the argument. Once the argument is defined, often by politicians, then experts are called in to validate it.
These are the conservative arguments against climate change that had the most effect on me.
