Peter Gleick 🇺🇸 (@PeterGleick): A fitting quote (in a short thread) from @nealstephenson's excellent new cli-fi book Termination Shock:
"The farther right one stood, the more likely one was to insist that the [climate] danger was overblown, & to resist any proposed actions that the government might take in...
Peter Gleick 🇺🇸 (@PeterGleick): the way of emissions reduction, carbon capture, & so forth. This was a losing battle, & had been for a long time, but it gave the right-wing fringe parties political currency that they could spend elsewhere. Their bitter denunciations of governments' heavy-handed meddling in...
Peter Gleick 🇺🇸 (@PeterGleick): free markets got them nowhere when it came to actually influencing public policy but it raked in votes from conservative citizen and money from like-minded donors, which they could take advantage of in other areas, such as clamping down on immigration."