Chris Buskirk: Conservatives Should Not Allow the Left to Claim the Climate Change Issue

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BUSKIRK: “You know I have no idea. I got this theory that for the past 20 years there has been — everything has been sort of defined by the climate change debate. So the left says climate change, climate change, climate change, if we don’t do something extreme tomorrow that allows the government to intrude all over every sort of personal liberty that you have then the planet is going to be destroyed in five years and the human race is going to go extinct. That’s one side. On the other side conservatives have allowed themselves to do nothing more than try to negate and say nope, we don’t think that’s true. It’s just another example of this ethic that conservatives, American conservatives seem to have our only job is to stand history and yell stop. It’s stupid. It is just a loser philosophy. And we have to come up with something that’s better than that we have to be able to put forward good policies that actually promote and protect the environment. Promote green spaces as you were saying, protect nature. These are things that should be uncontroversial and, yet, climate change has become an excuse not to do anything.”