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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are conservative or libertarian, which statement describes your view?

A. Climate change is not real, or at least it is not man-made.
B. Climate change may be real, but there is nothing the government can and should do to mitigate it, because it won't change anything (climate change is inevitable regardless of what we do).
C. China and India pollute more, and therefore we should not try and reduce our emissions, because it will threaten our economic competitiveness.
D. Climate change is real, but government-driven efforts are more feel-good and greenwashing than actually effective.
E. Emissions reductions and greener initiatives should be entirely left to the free market to solve. 
F. I acknowledge climate change, emissions, pollution, and various forms of environmental degradation but I just don't find it to be as important as other issues that affect me more directly. 
G. Climate change is exaggerated and an excuse for governments to try and restrict our freedoms. 
H. Don't talk to me about climate change or the environment until every politician and elite like Bill Gates stops using private jets and lives according to what environmentalists want. [/quote]

Didn’t read the thread but none of these fully describe my views.  A and B definitely wrong.

I think it exists but the we’re all going to die scenarios are exaggerated (didn’t Al Gore as the ice caps would be gone by now).  We are making efforts and that’s good but the best way out of this is to be practical and to innovate, like Elon Musk.  And yeah, rich hypocrites like Gates and John Kerry are totally obnoxious and definitely undermine the cause.

It’s important to protect the environment.  We’ve done OK on that in the past but could do better.  We are learning and getting better and should celebrate that.

Protecting the earth is great but the green misanthropy and opposition to progress I can do without.

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