--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Alastair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Alastair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Global Change: 2909] Re: Republican Party Platform on Climate Change To: "globalchange" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 4:18 PM On Oct 1, 12:16 pm, Tom Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 13, 3:28 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Anyway, I can't tell if you got my earlier point: She literally > > > admitted that man's activities can be attributed to climate change, > > > not that climate change can be attributed to man's activities. > > > I can read all right. She mangled up that sentence. > > And now she has done it again! > > "I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in > climate." > > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/sarah-palin-dis.html But she is saying what middle America want to hear. What's wrong with that? How do we know "middle America" wants to hear this? Itdepends on how you define "middle America," I think, and even then I don't know just how you would measure theirpreferences. Palin is certainly saying what some powerful American industries and the power brokers in the Republican Partywant to hear. As a Yank who hails from "middle America," I imaginea good many people who belong to the broad American middle class, or who think they belong to it, want to continue denyingthe evidence for climate change as well. But it's not at all clear to me just what "middle America"thinks in any detail, partly because extremely wealthyindividual and corporate donors to political campaignsand the rather wealthy owners of the mainstream mass media outlets tend to shape public discourse in theUnited States. Dissenting views on the left and the right tend to get eclipsed; moreovermany Americans don't vote, and thus there is no reliable way of tellingjust what their political ideas are. That can sometimes makeit hard to tell just who is supporting any given politician, whether we're talking about Palin or Obama, and hard to telljust what "middle America" is thinking about a controversialtopic like global climate change. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
