How Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Pandemic

How do policy options move to the top of a party’s agenda? The short answer: when groups fight for them, the right way, at the right time. And while it’s never clear what’s the right way, we can say some things about it, and a lot about the timing within the political cycle.

Matt Yglesias argued earlier this week that some climate groups are harming their own cause by being overly critical of the Democratic Party, along with diluting their message by talking up issues that aren’t directly relevant to climate change, some of which have the bonus disadvantage of being unpopular with the overall electorate. Political scientist Dave Karpf answered with the case for party-aligned interest groups fighting hard for their agenda at the legislating stage, and for the strategy climate groups have used to attempt to build alliances within the party even if it means they sometimes adopt unpopular slogans about non-climate-related policy areas. I tend to side with Karpf, but I recommend all three items.

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[zeke]

20 years ago Ted Danson said we have about 12 years left to live. Wake up America!

[charlesbrightman]

Next mass extinction event could trigger the next mass extinction event. And we are already in the 6th mass extinction event due to the Earth's magnetic field weakening, the Earth's magnetic poles moving and all the related magnetism issues.

[timberrr]

This video is composed of logical fallacies.
She is not a scientist.

[vincentmordente]

Oh look….a bat… *proceeds to watch* You shut have cut the video at the bat image.

[karyherndon]

But, migration is not easy or unusual! Humans have migrated for other reasons. (I get sick of the words climate change.) Good ...to try using another ...hot set of words to describe ...how things change no matter what..Okay?