Young GQP Climate "Activists" Convene In Miami To Show Concern, But Regulations, Carbon Tax BAD!
For Benji Backer, being conservative means believing in limited government, market-based solutions — and the scientists who say carbon emissions must be cut to avoid the worst of climate change. On Saturday, Backer’s nonprofit, the American Conservation Coalition, will hold what it believes is the country’s first conservative climate rally, part of an effort by the 23-year-old activist to convince fellow right-leaning Americans they don’t have to be liberals to support action on the issue.
The rally is being held in Miami, a city threatened by tidal floods from rising seas, stronger hurricanes, and health risks from higher temperatures and humidity, and is expected to include a handful of Republican lawmakers. “We want to start showing older conservatives, and conservatives that are younger, that climate is an issue that you can lead on without compromising your principles,” he said.
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The ACC platform only calls for moving “toward” global net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, not hitting the target or surpassing it. Rather than the mandates included in Biden’s plan, it favors “market solutions” to cutting greenhouse gases, such as constructing more buildings out of wood that stores carbon, creating new forests in a “trillion trees” program, and increasing use of emissions-free hydropower.
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Carla Staver, an ecologist and the associate director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, added that planting new forests can be one component of a comprehensive approach on climate change, but that estimates of their climate impact put forward by some conservatives can be “wildly optimistic.” Another big sticking point for climate activists: ACC does not support imposing a carbon fee, a market mechanism that would encourage investors to move to cleaner energy sources. “An obsessive focus on innovation and policies which impose no costs on anyone are by definition policies that are not up to the task,” said Jerry Taylor, the president of the Niskanen Center, a moderate think tank.
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