The Last Ray Of Hope In The Republican Party
Climate Change is a bipartisan issue, but the GOP hasn’t got that memo yet.
Over the past few months, climate change has started to show its teeth. The rampant heatwaves, boiling ocean, crashing ecosystems, and record-breaking wildfires are all terrifying, deadly disasters that have been linked to our ravaging of Mother Earth. But this is just an apéritif; we categorically know there is far worse waiting for us. This was the backdrop of the Republican Candidate Debate, and many hoped that a more calm, logical, honest and ethical atmosphere would descend with Trump unable to attend for obvious reasons. Instead, the toxic, misguided, unscientific, fearmongering, billionaire-worshipping, worshipping and propaganda-pushing nature of America’s right-wing politics was on full display. But, there was one small glimmer of hope among the dank sputum belched out at this farcical debate.
Before I carry on, I should make my political standings understood, as that is incredibly important here. I’m not American, I’m British. I’m not left or right; I see myself as an empirical political realist.
In other words, I don’t care about identity politics; I stay out of it. I’m only concerned with what data says is the best way forward. This is why you don’t see me engaging with the broader…
