Around the world there are now concrete signs of the death of the climate agenda. The questions that persist relate to whether or not this is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end of the Climate Wars, and for how long Brits and Europeans will have to endure their political establishments’ intransigence. Marking the end of climatism from an American perspective, and in the wake of Donald trump’s return to the White House, Roger Pielke Jr. and Michael Shellenberger have produced a very insightful conversation on the latter’s podcast.
“Climate change is an apocalyptic threat, they said,” explains Shellenberger. “It wasn’t — obviously”. Trump has “exposed” the Biden administration’s flagship climate policy – the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act “as a grift”. And perhaps most tellingly, “Greta has moved on to Palestine.” “Climate change is fading from view like overpopulation and other past environmental scares.”
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