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  • Climate change is a winning issue. Let’s work together to solve it

Viewpoint: Climate change is a winning issue. Let’s work together to solve it.

By: Courier and Press

Thursday, November 12, 2020

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In the home stretch of the 2020 campaign, presidential candidate Joe Biden leaned hard into the issue of climate change, giving a televised climate speech and running climate-focused ads in swing states. His campaign bet that this issue, once considered politically risky, would now be a winner.

That bet paid off. The votes have been tallied, and candidate Biden is now president-elect Biden. But, as is often the case, his party doesn’t have unified control across the whole federal government. President Biden will govern alongside a Democratic House, a conservative Supreme Court, and a Senate that could either have a slim Republican or Democratic majority. That makes “working together” the order of the day.

Encouragingly, Biden understands that people of any party can and do care about climate change. In a speech this fall, he said, “Hurricanes don’t swerve to avoid red states or blue states. Wildfires don’t skip towns that voted a certain way. The impacts of climate change don’t pick and choose. It’s not a partisan phenomenon, and our response should be the same.”

According to the Hoosier Life Survey conducted by the IU Environmental Resiliency Institute, 75% of Hoosiers believe that climate change is happening. According to the Morrison Institute survey (as reported by the Indianapolis Star), 69% of Indiana Republicans believe that protection of the environment should be given priority even at the risk of slowing economic growth. (Economists have said that failing to act on climate change will hurt economic growth.)

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