Yay. We're Saved. Rick Santorum Is Here To Talk About Republican Climate Solutions
Fuck you, Rick. That's it. Just . . . fuck you.
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Conservatives are now the voice of reason in the climate debate. When President Trump plainly said climate change is "not a hoax" he faced no backlash on the right because conservatives, by and large, agree with him. It was progressives who found his acknowledgment politically inconvenient.
This does not mean conservatives believe the science is settled and the debate is over. Far from it. I’ve long been and continue to be skeptic when it comes to assessing the human impacts on climate but there is no dissonance in being skeptical and promoting good stewardship at the same time.
Conservatives, particularly people of faith, have always taken environmental stewardship seriously. Progressives might be surprised to know I work with an international company that recycles and converts waste into energy. I even tend bees on my own land. Millions of other conservatives who don’t fit the profile of a virtue-signaling environmentalist are similarly committed to leaving the planet better off than we found it and practice stewardship in our personal and professional lives.
Republicans have an opportunity in 2020 to flip the script and appeal to younger voters who want the results the GND is incapable of delivering. Time-tested conservative principles like promoting innovation, empowering entrepreneurs, and lowering regulatory barriers are the best ways to deploy new technologies that will create a healthy natural and economic environment. These principles, not top-down and heavy-handed government intervention, unleashed the fracking revolution that dramatically cut emissions in my home state of Pennsylvania and the entire country.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/507733-how-republicans-can-embrace-environmentalism-and-win
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The idea of SERIOUS “conservative” solutions to man-made climate change is ridiculous. Right-wing responses of lie, deny, and ignore have become ingrained right-wing responses for at least two generations.
Do you know why anti-pollution legislation exists, Ricky? It’s because the inherent right-wing response to dealing with response is a selfish response, one made without considering responsibility and consequences. If people were as responsible and foresighted as your noble-sounding prattle, there’s be no need for pollution laws.
So, Ricky, how well did those vaunted “Conservative principles” work during the Johnstown Flood? 
