Well your definitely not voting to help them are you.
How do we fix CC while keeping right wingers happy?
What will it take to get conservatives on board?
I don’t give a fuck about the us vs. them, I just want my future kiddies to have a nice planet to live in. Help me understand so I can convey my beliefs to the conservatives I’m surrounded by so they start to care about it too. Help me help them, thus helping me and any future little me’s.
I think CC needs a rebranding - the “conservatives” (and/or those that simply don’t make the effort to understand the science/truth/physics etc.) hear “lefty bullshit” whenever they hear it because of the way it’s been brutalised in the MSM. The term climate change is describing an outcome, often with doomsday connotations which makes it sound more like a scary bedtime story than something that might actually be happening. It would be far better to focus on the causes and present them in a context people can relate with; a no cause, no effect mantra. Carrot vs stick.
When Labor says “real action on climate change”, how does the average farmer/shooter/fisher/miner/truck driver/tradie etc. translate that to something of relevance they might be able to do in their ordinary lives that will make a shred of difference? That phrase has now been relegated as one of a bunch of toxic cliches from a failed political campaign - can't see it invoking the right emotive response for a while to come.
If CO2 is the harbinger of doom, then unchecked capitalism and overpopulation are the demon hounds upon which it rides. The political message that comes through thanks to Kyoto / Paris et al is that tackling climate change through emissions reductions alone will magically save the planet. It's a flawed proposition if we don't also address sustainability. Mainstream society is already conditioned to embrace small positive steps like recycling, environmentally friendly packaging, energy efficient lighting, solar panels and electric cars. If the necessarily ambitious CC targets were rephrased as a series of incremental changes disguised as a sustainability push with a positive halo, I reckon the mainstream would find it a lot easier on the palate. Small steps as
@Calvin27 suggests.
We also need a comet or plague to wipe out 30% of the world's population. Climate change as a product of global warming caused by humans doesn't worry me as much as outright consumption of natural resources and destruction of our environment. Climate change means the end of our indulgent way of life, but the planet will be ok, and probably a lot greener with fewer people. Heck, we might even see
@moorey become a capitalist when he sees the uptick in the value of his Buninyong beachfront property. If however, there are so many of us that we eat every plant and animal in sight and pollute the shit out of our land and oceans, it doesn't end as well for us or the planet.
