Andrew Yang Is Not Your Climate Friend
Fleeing to “higher ground” isn’t an adaptation policy.
by Robinson Meyer
Aug 01, 2019
3 minutes
During the primary debates, Democratic candidates repeatedly accused each other of using “Republican talking points.”
But it was Andrew Yang who actually deployed a hyper-conservative argument on Wednesday night—albeit one that had somehow time traveled from the year 2080.
Asked in very general terms about his climate-change plan, Yang, a former technology executive, made a few points. Almost all of them were terrible.
“The important number in this is 15 percent of global emissions,” Yang
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