These debates aren’t useful. It’s like when Bill Nye tried to debate the creationist dude. If the other side doesn’t ground their belief in evidence to begin with, no amount of reasoning can actually help you improve your position. Their axioms aren’t reason based to begin with.
What is the “other side” in the context of a dnc primary debate?
Al Gore was all about evidence too. Yet we are still around ... The evidence proclaiming anyone disagreeing a heretic? The evidence that requires books to be re-written or burned out of existence? Nah thanks. Call me stereotypical, but it sounds more like a cult.
Politicians like Inslee who have looked deep into the science around climate change seem to have an appreciation for how big of a threat it is that the general public doesn’t have yet
Well that’s extremely generous of you. In my opinion politicians like this see this as another way to virtue signal, claim the far most left ground so can’t be out flanked on the issue. Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that bro
I’m not sure what you mean by that. If someone running a single-issue presidential campaign like Inslee wanted to “virtue signal” surely they would pick an issue that polls better than climate change, right?
Haha imagine not believing in Climate science in 2019. Jesus christ you're a dumb one.
So you really don’t understand how naïve you sound when you say “ believe in climate science “ Like an entire field of study is reduced down to some Boolean. Some self reflection it is in order
Honestly and entire hour long debate just on climate change is overkill. Everyone but extreme idiots in the GOP (I’m sure many republicans aren’t scientifically illiterate) knows climate change is a real deal. How about 5 minutes each candidate, and make it entirely about how to use new energy production to help not just with climate change but frame it as a new job creator. Then another 5 minute follow up about how climate change will be the biggest risk to national security if we don’t get in front of it. Think of Syrian level mass refugee migration into our precious southern border and every other developed first world country. Hmmm...actually maybe we do need a full hour on it. It’s pretty important.
Totally agree, how we respond to it is something we have a little consensus on today and is very important. So why do you think it is the party leaders in the DNC or censoring this topic?
My guess is the DNC will keep climate change as a constant topic in all debate topics (economy, foreign policy, trade, national security) rather than an entire debate on it exclusively. That ways it’s a tier 1 issue in all forums, and we don’t risk bombarding the public on one issue. Might be a good strategy if they stick with it. But who knows.
DNC is imploding