The Right’s Climate Catastrophe

Across the globe, conservatives who have gone green are under fire for their carbon-cutting zeal. Sam Bungey on David Cameron’s comeuppance, Monsieur Taxe’s troubles, and Australia’s denier coup.

While Republicans have focused on finding new ways to demean Mother Nature (in the lead, Sarah Palin: “There’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals—right next to the mashed potatoes”) their conservative counterparts overseas have been engaged in a jolly old game of save the planet. But with real, expensive carbon-cutting policies now on the table at Copenhagen and deniers on the rise in the party rank and file, lately conservatives around the globe are finding support of climate action has stopped being fun. In Australia, the effect has been extreme, ending in a grizzly leadership coup.

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via The Right’s Climate Catastrophe – Page 1 – The Daily Beast.