I could cite plenty of other specific missteps, but what these two outbursts have in common is a total failure to read the political situation.Ĭlimate groups seem to be operating in a reality where there is massive public support for much more dramatic action on climate change and the only thing standing in their way is a need to sweep aside the power of corrupt and timid moderate Democrats. The other is this letter from environmental groups on U.S.-China policy, which blasts “the dominant antagonistic approach to U.S.-China relations” as bad for climate, but then across several hundred words of verbiage doesn’t actually say what policy change they want before concluding grandiosely that “nothing less than the future of our planet depends on ending the new Cold War between the United States and China.” One is the decision of major climate groups to blast the bipartisan infrastructure deal that the Biden White House is hoping to get passed and greet it with protests at the White House. There are a lot of dimensions to this, but it really comes to a head in two recent developments. Unlike my usual bland fare, I suspect this one will make some people upset, but climate change is a really big problem and I’m increasingly concerned that huge swathes of the climate advocacy world are losing the plot.
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