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    BrtStlndHamilton Nolan
    5/17/16 1:27pm

    I was having this discussion just this weekend... was it the fact that it was Al Gore’s name on Inconvenient Truth that originally politicized this issue? Republicans saw Gore’s name and did everything they could to deny the truth?

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      XrdsAlumBrtStlnd
      5/17/16 1:36pm

      I was discussing it this weekend as well. Part of it is the politicization, but there’s something deeper. Increasingly, based on the public discussions, I’m thinking that it comes down to people who portray it, in good faith or bad, as a choice between “the economy” (e.g. jobs in polluting industries, higher standards of living in non-Western countries) and “the environment” (global warming, breathable air, etc.).

      It takes a certain amount of intellectual sophistication and education to understand that a synthesis is possible, that protecting the economy and protecting the environment can be one and the same if we’re willing to think long term and make hard choices (two things Americans are not good at).

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      PenguinsftwXrdsAlum
      5/17/16 2:00pm

      That’s really the issue. It being a generational long term goal. People don’t want their economics inhibited in the slightest. No matter what. They only have a limited time on this earth and when you start talking about what will be in the next 100 years. You lose them. And honestly, I don’t blame them.

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHamilton Nolan
    5/17/16 1:18pm

    The article clearly states in the article Europe doesn’t have one, and that it is the hope of France that them doing it will kickstart the whole of Europe. Good luck with that.

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      CorsaireSatanGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      5/17/16 1:28pm

      Europe is lucky in that they are (mostly) not governed by complete fuckwits.

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      XrdsAlumGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      5/17/16 1:39pm

      Someone has to set the example, and the nations of Europe (at least those in Western Europe) are more likely to follow than other countries. Sadly, that last group includes the U.S.

      In the end, though, this is a global problem that doesn’t respect borders. We’ll all be cursed by our descendants (assuming we have them) in terms of our generations rather than in terms of our nationalities.

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    Jerry-NetherlandHamilton Nolan
    5/17/16 1:49pm

    And the French do hybrids so stylishly!

    2016 Peugeot 508 Hybrid.

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      IAmNotADamnWriterHamilton Nolan
      5/17/16 1:35pm

      Those are called “freedom emissions,” son.

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