Jeremy Powell<p>"We have to end fossil fuels and transition to clean energy—to wind and solar, for example—and we have to make fossil fuels more expensive, among many other things. Well, if you do that in a way that makes it so that working class people are spending a larger and larger fraction of their money on energy, and then they can’t afford to get to work and put food on their table, what are they going to do? They’re going to say, fuck this, we’re voting for the guy who says he’ll roll that back so that we can actually live, which is the guy who is the climate denier.</p><p>So, if you want to have your climate policies stick, you have to do it in a way that is funded by the ultra rich, who also, incidentally, are causing the lion’s share of global heating."</p><p>Sounds familiar...</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/nu0RpMX4G30?si=fluSM0OEWGIy9gGt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/nu0RpMX4G30?si=fluSM0</span><span class="invisible">OEWGIy9gGt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>climatechange</span></a></p>