Democrats the same as Republicans? (on climate change)
What's the difference?
Not that Democrats never tell the truth about this.
Here are 2 examples where a Democrat told the truth about climate-change, and in both cases they were condemned by Democrats and the Populist mindless masses.
Pete Buttigieg here points out the benefit of higher price at the pump:
“The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.”
"The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit."
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Pete Buttigieg, in speech to promote alternative transportation (during record-high heat waves in the U.S. and Europe), and to promote subsidies to electric vehicles
This quote was publicized more by the Right-wing media than the Left or Mainline media. It's actually difficult to find the quote, and might have gone unnoticed if Fox News and Sean Hannity had not picked up on it and used it to bash Demos and blame Biden for high gas prices, which Demos deny, insisting that they want lower gas prices and are doing everything possible, even begging the Saudis (and whining to Venezuela and Iran) to step up production. Demos mostly disagree with Buttigieg and agree with Republicans and climate-change deniers that the priority is to keep gas prices low to preserve America's God-given right to cheap gasoline which is killing millions and will kill millions more in the future, even tens or hundreds of millions in 3rd-World countries in the coming decades. But these hordes of humans who will starve don't matter because America's right to instant gratification today is more important, according to Biden and Democrats generally who agree with Trumpsters and Fox on America's entitlement to cheap gas.
(One could argue that the EV subsidies are not an ideal alternative, because some other alternatives might be better, and EVs require electricity which comes mostly from burning coal, plus also the manufacture of batteries requires heavy fossil fuel consumption. However, the real truth of the Buttigieg quote is the need for any alternatives to gasoline, whatever these might be, and imposing higher cost onto gasoline will give encouragement to whatever are the best alternatives.)
An earlier notable Demo quote on this topic was that of Barrack Obama, in 2008. This is about the need for higher electricity rates (for carbon-produced electric power):
“Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
“Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket," Obama said in 2008.
www.politico.com
(earlier post on this topic:
https://iidb.org/threads/new-need-for-gas-tax-increase.26282/ )
In reality Obama did not follow through on this, in his 8 years. But at least he spoke the truth in saying we need higher electricity rates (for energy produced by coal).
in summary:
a carbon tax is the best solution
= increase the tax on gasoline (and other fossil fuels) and on electricity produced by fossil fuels. Some Democrats, in a rare case, do acknowledge the truth about this. But why are Democrats generally in denial? Why are they really the same as the mindless Republican populists who cannot recognize the truth? What would it take to get these Democrat populists to pull their head out of the sand?
www.bbc.com
This is too silly for words. Suppose Greta is so successful that 1% of the Earth's people stop burning carbon. Reduced demand would then lower the cost of carbon by a penny and ... the other 99% would burn carbon even faster because of the reduced price!