re: #50 Lidane

Correction — they favored the Clean Air Act 40 years ago.

These days, you’d be hard pressed to find an elected Republican that’s not an anti-science Creationist who thinks that AGW is a hoax, and therefore environmental protections are rubbish.

AGW isn’t the only reason to want environmental protections. AGW has a bit of an abstract and ethereal feel to it. Some Republicans seem to think that anything that’s abstract and comes more than a decade later is theology, and usurps God’s role. (As if God will do for us the very work he gave us to do, to keep the Earth and tend it.)

But soot, sulfuric acid, etc. is in the here and now. An AGW nonbeliever can still see that lethal fogs, those choking, killing amoeba that used to move across London or Pittsburgh and leave scores of bodies behind, are man’s fault and that the law both can and must prevent them.

Get back to me when the Republicans call hearings on repealing the clean air act. I don’t imagine that’s even a remote possibility.