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Climate Change Is Here; Why Aren\u2019t We Doing Anything About It?<\/h2>\n
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Regarding the impending climate crisis, Yale scientist Anthony Leiserowitz tells Bill Moyers: \u201cYou almost couldn\u2019t design a problem that is a worse fit with our underlying psychology.\u201d The solution? Part of it involves turning the issue into talking points for conservatives.<\/p>\n

How about describing global warming as a threat to Americans\u2019 freedoms? \u201cIf you\u2019re a rancher or a farmer in the Great Plains today,\u201d Leiserowitz says, \u201cyour freedom is enormously constrained by the fact that you\u2019re in the midst of a two-year severe drought, OK. You don\u2019t get to choose what you\u2019re going to plant. You don\u2019t get to choose what cows you\u2019re going to slaughter. In fact, we\u2019ve just seen in Texas in the past year 2 million head of cow, cattle are no longer in Texas; they had to move them out because they couldn\u2019t provide the food and forage and water for them because of that drought. That\u2019s not freedom, OK. You are literally not able to do the thing that you were raised and that you believe in as part of your culture because the climate has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another approach Leiserowitz recommends, however difficult it is to imagine gaining traction among the Republican Party\u2019s entrenched corporate backers, is to cast support for climate change legislation as an opportunity to win more votes from the American public.<\/p>\n

Read a transcript of their conversation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2013Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Regarding the impending climate crisis, Yale scientist Anthony Leiserowitz tells Bill Moyers: “You almost couldn’t design a problem that is a worse fit with our underlying psychology.” The solution? Part of it involves turning the issue into talking points for conservatives.<\/p>\n

How about describing global warming as a threat to Americans’ freedoms? “If you’re a rancher or a farmer in the Great Plains today,” Leiserowitz says, “your freedom is enormously constrained by the fact that you’re in the midst of a two-year severe drought, OK. You don’t get to choose what you’re going to plant. You don’t get to choose what cows you’re going to slaughter. In fact, we’ve just seen in Texas in the past year 2 million head of cow, cattle are no longer in Texas; they had to move them out because they couldn’t provide the food and forage and water for them because of that drought. That’s not freedom, OK. You are literally not able to do the thing that you were raised and that you believe in as part of your culture because the climate has changed.”<\/p>\n

Another approach Leiserowitz recommends, however difficult it is to imagine gaining traction among the Republican Party’s entrenched corporate backers, is to cast support for climate change legislation as an opportunity to win more votes from the American public.<\/p>\n

Read a transcript of their conversation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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