{"id":2206,"date":"2020-02-14T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2020-02-14T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T17:27:48","slug":"new-conservative-climate-plans-are-neither-conservative-nor-climate-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"New conservative climate plans are neither conservative nor climate plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Over the years, the terms \u201cfree market\u201d and \u201climited government,\u201d like so many conservative principles, have devolved into little more than rhetorical tics, bits of sloganeering that bear no resemblance to actual conservative governance.
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What conservatives seem to have decided is that regulations, restrictions, or limitations \u2014 anything that might upset or inconvenience the corporations generating greenhouse gases \u2014 are the bad kind of big government and a bad way of picking winners and losers. Government subsidies, tax credits, and grants \u2014 anything that might benefit big corporations \u2014 is the good kind of big government and a good way of picking winners and losers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There are plenty of models that show we will need carbon capture<\/a> (both industrial and natural) to supplement other efforts to reduce emissions. We probably can\u2019t hit our mid-century targets without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is no model in the world showing emissions falling fast enough with nothing but <\/em>carbon capture, with fossil fuels continuing their current headlong expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fossil fuels that remain behind after deep decarbonization, the ones that still need their emissions captured and buried, will be a small vestige of the current fossil fuel regime. That is what every credible model shows. That is the cold, hard truth at the heart of the climate dilemma: There is no avoiding the imperative to reduce fossil fuel combustion and the social and economic disruptions that come with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Republican efforts to feign climate policy conspicuously fail to grapple with that truth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-environment\/2020\/2\/5\/21121935\/climate-change-republicans-conservatives<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Over the years, the terms \u201cfree market\u201d and \u201climited government,\u201d like so many conservative principles, have devolved into little more than rhetorical tics, bits of sloganeering that bear no resemblance to actual conservative governance.<\/p>\n

What conservatives seem to have decided is that regulations, restrictions, or limitations \u2014 anything that might upset or inconvenience the corporations generating greenhouse gases \u2014 are the bad kind of big government and a bad way of picking winners and losers. Government subsidies, tax credits, and grants \u2014 anything that might benefit big corporations \u2014 is the good kind of big government and a good way of picking winners and losers.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“There are plenty of models that show we will need carbon capture (both industrial and natural) to supplement other efforts to reduce emissions. We probably can\u2019t hit our mid-century targets without it.<\/p>\n

But there is no model in the world showing emissions falling fast enough with nothing but carbon capture, with fossil fuels continuing their current headlong expansion.<\/p>\n

The fossil fuels that remain behind after deep decarbonization, the ones that still need their emissions captured and buried, will be a small vestige of the current fossil fuel regime. That is what every credible model shows. That is the cold, hard truth at the heart of the climate dilemma: There is no avoiding the imperative to reduce fossil fuel combustion and the social and economic disruptions that come with it.<\/p>\n

Current Republican efforts to feign climate policy conspicuously fail to grapple with that truth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[441,105,217,165,233,104,236],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-carbon-capture","tag-climate-change","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-global-warming","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}