Summary of How the Geography of Climate Damage Could Make the Politics Less Polarizing
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In the 1960s, tough-on-crime activists in the United States liked to say that a “conservative is a liberal who has been robbed.” Climate change activists today may soon describe a climate policy advocate as “a farmer who has lost his harvest to drought” or “a property owner whose house was destroyed by a cyclone.” In fact, new data published by America’s prestigious Climate Impact Lab reveals that US states most strongly opposed to climate policy today will likely suffer the most from climate inaction. A group of scholars at the Brookings Institution discuss the political implications of this data in a fascinating article that will interest anyone who has not yet given up hope for effective US climate action.
In this summary, you will learn
- How climate change will affect different regions in America and
- Why climate activists must change their political messaging.
About the Authors
Mark Muro, David G. Victor and Jacob Whiton are scholars at the Brookings Institution.