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Ronald Brownstein
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The battle over the nations energy future has become another front in the escalating cultural and political confrontation between what America has been and what it is becoming. #climate
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The Green-Energy Culture Wars in Red States
Another thing holding back our transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
7:28 AM · Mar 30, 2022
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
The battle over the nations energy future has become another front in the escalating cultural and political confrontation between what America has been and what it is becoming. #climate
theatlantic.com
The Green-Energy Culture Wars in Red States
Another thing holding back our transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
7:28 AM · Mar 30, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/03/republican-fossil-fuels-renewable-energy/629420/
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The battle over the nations energy future has become another front in the escalating cultural and political confrontation between what America has been and what it is becoming.
The states that are most deeply integrated into the existing fossil-fuel economy, either as producers or as consumers, tend also to be the places that are most resistant to, and separated from, the major demographic, cultural, and economic changes remaking 21st-century American life.
These fossil-fuel-reliant states are nearly all among those moving most aggressively to restrict voting, abortion, and LGBTQ rights; to ban books; and to censor what teachers and college professors can say about race, gender, and sexual orientation. The majority of them rank near the bottom among the 50 states in the share of their residents who hold four-year college degrees, are foreign-born, or work in occupations tied to the new digital economy, according to census figures. Industry marketing figures show they tend to rank near the bottom of the 50 states in adoption of electric vehicles and near the top in their reliance on gas-guzzling pickup trucks. Most of them have larger populations of white voters who identify as Christian and rely heavily on blue-collar work in the powerhouse industries of the 20th century: production of energy and other natural resources, manufacturing, and agriculture. Republicans dominate their electoral landscape, both in state and federal offices.
This convergence of fossil-fuel dependence, cultural conservatism, and isolation from the most dynamic modern industries captures how comprehensively the two parties are divided by their exposure to, and attitudes about, the changes reshaping America. It also shows how difficult it will be to establish any consensus for national action to accelerate the shift from fossil fuels to clean energy sources, despite the mounting evidence that climate change threatens all regions of the country (and the world).
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The Green-Energy Culture Wars in Red States (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
OP
Interesting article that offers an explanation for many of the issue I see here in Texas.
walkingman
Mar 2022
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LakeVermilion
(1,022 posts)1. What a good map of the "taker" states...
Just sayin'
hunter
(38,263 posts)2. We're still fighting the damned Civil War.
The same sorts of people who thought slavery was a good thing are now arguing that fossil fuels are a good thing.
The same sort of people who were raping the family slaves and servants are now "rolling coal" whenever they pass a bicyclist or Prius.
walkingman
(7,505 posts)3. Interesting article that offers an explanation for many of the issue I see here in Texas.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)4. What makes Georgia such a conspicuous oasis?
Could it be the incomparable Stacy Abrams?