By WeBuyItGreen: promoting green living, fair trade and tap water
For many on both the right and the left, the effects of the truth about climate change are more than inconvenient. They have been personally confusing.
This is not difficult to understand with respect to conservative ideology. Members of the right believe in independent enterprise. Their hero is Ronald Reagan, the great communicator on behalf of smaller government, lower taxes, and less regulation. They identify "green" with CAFE standards, EPA regulation, and those crazy Europeans, who, due to gas taxes, were paying five dollars a gallon during the good old days when a gallon cost two dollars in the U.S. No, the inconvenience of Mr. Gore’s truth is not difficult to understand for this group. But conservatives support business, and "green" is now becoming big business. The prospects for cashing in on this potential may have more impact than any scientific evidence in shattering conservative resistance to the climate change message. Conservatives are trying on a new "greener" set of clothing.
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