Courting young conservatives, Republicans speed up their 'evolution' on climate change

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — Republicans long divided over the scale, scope and science of climate change are unifying behind legislation geared toward a constituency they cannot afford to lose: young conservative voters.

Their efforts to reach this key group for the 2020 election are rapidly accelerating.

Within the course of a month, a little-known initiative to plant a trillion trees worldwide has attracted the attention and endorsement of President Donald Trump, who touted the concept at the World Economic Forum in Davos and during the State of the Union address to Congress.

House Republican leaders are now building on the momentum to produce legislation from this proposal, which calls for private-public partnerships to plant a trillion trees around the world in an effort to capture harmful carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/courting-young-conservatives-republicans-speed-up-their-evolution-on-climate-change/ar-BB101Jtf?li=BBnb7Kz

Color me skeptical. As long as their leader Trump is in denial and Congress is full of people like Senator Snowball (R) Oklahoma young people are going to see this for the cynical stunt it is.

[griffi94]

1. This should be fun to watch.

I have to think that the current rank & file of the GOP isn't going to go along with this.
So does current GOP leadership start trying to attract new blood to replace the dying Boomers, or try to
squeak thru a few more election cycles before they are forced to concede that science is a thing.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Supporting the trillion trees project is the least the Republicans can do for the environment.

The very least.

They can pass tax breaks for corporations who say they're contributing to the plan, and slam together some public relations stuff that costs less than one of Trump's golf trips to Mar-A-Lago, and then claim to support the efforts to mitigate climate change. Nothing will have changed. They'll still be self-centered assholes as far as the environment goes, always measuring the steps necessary to stop polluting the air and water against their bottom line. Listen to Trump (if you can) -- he always uses the cost of reducing emissions as the big determinant as whether his administration should even do any studies on the economic feasibility of taking action.

The Republicans are evil. They will do whatever it takes to stay in power. They have zero interest in improving the world's environment or its population.

I guess I'm cynical about anything Trump and the Republicans do that appears to be positive. No, with these guys you can't be too cynical.

Anyway, here's the website for The Trillion Tree Campaign.

[hatrack]

3. Ladies & Gentlemen, welcome to The Bare Minimum! The Absolute Least We Can Do!

More handwaving and bullshit from the GOP to make it look like they give a shit.

And in response to the utter lack of anything substantive offered by McCarthy and the rest of the Clown College, the stink tanks of the GOP establishment are screaming bloody murder:

But even though the proposals are tailored to conservatives, the measures are running into some resistance on the right. The Club for Growth, which has been particularly active in 2020, bashed the bills within an hour of their release, soon followed by two conservative nonprofits, American Energy Alliance and Competitive Enterprise Institute.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/13/gop-climate-change-kevin-mccarthy-115025