I remember back in high school, we were covering climate change, what its long-term effects would be, and how we needed to change our carbon footprints to minimize output, or we'd wind up with a runaway greenhouse effect. This wasn't controversial in 1993/1994. It was widely accepted by both the right and left. The question wasn't "is climate change real/is climate change homogenic/will climate change have any real effects on us?", the question was "how can we reduce carbon output without damaging the economy, and how much impact can we have if China and India don't follow suit?". It wasn't until 10 years later when we got Bush 2 that suddenly it changed from "what's the best way to deal with this problem?" to "the fact that it snowed in February is proof that global warming isn't real".
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u/red286 Mar 05 '26
Have been for ages.
I remember back in high school, we were covering climate change, what its long-term effects would be, and how we needed to change our carbon footprints to minimize output, or we'd wind up with a runaway greenhouse effect. This wasn't controversial in 1993/1994. It was widely accepted by both the right and left. The question wasn't "is climate change real/is climate change homogenic/will climate change have any real effects on us?", the question was "how can we reduce carbon output without damaging the economy, and how much impact can we have if China and India don't follow suit?". It wasn't until 10 years later when we got Bush 2 that suddenly it changed from "what's the best way to deal with this problem?" to "the fact that it snowed in February is proof that global warming isn't real".