Now that
there seems to be 95% agreement among reputable scientists that:
(a) it
exists and
(b) yes,
it’s our fault and
(c) we’ve
got to DO SOMETHING – pronto –
I believe
it’s time for liberals to join forces with those who profess to be on the “other
side of the aisle” and start working for change together.
Can you
think of a more “conservative” value than preserving the weather, temperatures,
ecosystems and coastline that we humans evolved in and enjoy? Can you think of
a more conservative message than “save this, our traditional way of life?”
I can’t.
It’s
essentially the message of the Tea Party, in fact, although what they posit as
the “traditional way of life” is a weird, convenient fiction in which the
founders of the USA were Christian fundamentalists in the Michele Bachmann
mold, no one was gay or lesbian or transgendered, women and people of color
knew their places, and White Guys ruled the Earth.
Still,
the Tea Party is fighting HARD to save that way of life – they’ve got energy
and gusto and verve and crazy eyes a’spinnin’ – and we liberals are talking to
each other in the Twitter echo chamber about how stupid climate change deniers
are rather than reaching across the aisle to make our case and harness some of
that incredible energy!
First
things first. I need to STOP it with the denigration of Republicans and
conservatives. That way lies stalemate and deadlock. That way lies our failure
to make a change to policy and practice soon enough to save the climate and
ecosystems we cherish.
