She’s wrong on the facts: Climate change is real, and the devastation it’s causing is not good. But politics requires stories about how things could keep getting better. We do have such a story. Unlike Marjorie Taylor Greene’s story, ours is true. It goes like this: By addressing the climate crisis, we are making the world better. With every policy step we take away from fossil fuels, we are cleaning up the air and water, creating new clean industries in which humans can thrive, making our cities greener, more beautiful, cooler, and full of life. People will live longer lives, evading heat waves and devastating storms. Indeed, our children could well have a future that is more pregnant with exciting possibility than the world we live in now.
Liza Featherstone, The New Republic: “Marjorie Taylor Greene’s New Climate Theory Is Absurd. It’s Also Very Smart.“
I’d also like to add these:
- People will no longer need to live on the streets, tents and sidewalks
- Less people would die from being hit by automobiles
- More people would be able to get to more places without a car or plane
- Less people would be victimized by, or driven to, crime and violence
- Less neighborhoods would be broken up by highways
- More people would live without segregation contorting their lives from birth to death