On a number of critical issues, those answers may indeed be coming from America’s dads. “You have a young kid, you look at them, you think, oh my God, this kid’s gonna grow up and ask me what I did or what I didn’t do,” he said. I spoke with Peter Olivier, the head of new markets for the carbon-removal company UNDO - and a self-proclaimed “climate dad” - about the phenomenon. Although recent surveys have shown that men across all ideological lines are less concerned about climate change than women, having children seems to sharpen their focus. Yet the results of the inaugural Heatmap Climate Poll, conducted in late February by Benenson Strategy Group, contradict such facile assumptions. “People when they start talking about things like global warming,” Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida and likely presidential candidate, said in December, “they typically use that as a pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things.” Things, of course, that would be anathema to such Coors-drinking, meat-stabbing Weber dads. This cartoon of an American dad who scoffs about climate change is easy to conjure, abetted by a Republican campaign to make environmentalism seem the province of liberal elites.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |