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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain to me why Republicans/conservatives don't care about the earth and the environment? Why do they think pollution is not a problem?  Why aren't they concerned about the safety of water and air?  Why do they not want to preserve natural beauty?  Are they really that selfish that person financial gain is more important to them than the long-term health of the earth? I guess I'm naive, but I really can't wrap my head around how people can be so uncaring about the one planet we have to live on. Why would you deliberately trash it?  Would you treat your owns home like this?  [/quote]

Because affecting environmental action involves collective action, government intervention and regulation on fossil fuel producers (which they read incorrectly as an attack on the free market). It has come to a point where these actions are now imperative to save impending climate disaster. But republicans cannot face this truth, because that means "giving in" to what they believe are progressive ideals. I would respect them more if instead of saying that they don't believe in climate change, they would admit that they do believe in climate change, but they just don't care, because their free market ideology means more to them than the Earth they live in. Plus all of the worst effects of climate change will start hitting around 2100, and don't impact them and maybe not even their kids - so it is easy to live in a fraudulent denial. [/quote]

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