Andrew Revkin
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You're not asking, what kind of energy future do you want in your town?
And so if you ask that question, the polarization goes away.
No, well, there, again...
The bipartisan infrastructure law that was passed last November, that was bipartisan.
All of Congress said yes.
And that's a trillion dollars, several hundred billion of which are for cleaner energy and resilience.
But it's not a climate bill.
And it wasn't a tax.
It's incentives.
Dan Cahen's work, the guy at Yale, he really demonstrated powerfully abortion, gun rights, climate, and a more parsed level of nuclear power.
Has enduring camps for and against.
Some of it's cultural cognition.
It's how you grew up.
It's what you fear.
There's no common human frame.
Therefore, I hate this thing.
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
You know, when people get attached to an issue, if that's what pops into your head when you hear climate, then... And it got politicized.
It became emblematic.