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When do you consider the left to have moved on climate? Climate change was a fairly bi-partisan issue initially. George Bush is famous for pushing cap and trade ideas in the late 80s early 90s for instance

ClimateTown has a fairly entertaining video about it https://youtu.be/MondapIjAAM

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I thought there was a sea change some time after Al Gore & An Inconvenient Truth, and someone decided to make it an identity issue.

> Climate change was a fairly bi-partisan issue initially.

Yeah, that is part of what makes me think it is relevant. Going form somewhat bipartisan to "our opponents are going to negligently incinerate us all" seems like a symptom of the breakdown of debate.

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