Responses to climate change from conservatives

Main strategy of conserviatives to climate change has been total denial: there is no such a thing like global warming. There is only natural fluctuation of climate pattern. But as undeniable evidence has been accumulated, they seem to change their strategy. Here are what I found from conservatives on news media;

(1) Now, conservatives accept extraordinary climate change as a fact.

(2) But they still raise questions about whether the change was caused by human activities.

(3) Furthermore, they are skeptical whether we can do something to prevent climate change, although they accept that the change was resulted from human activites.

(4) They suggest that we need focus on related problems such as disaster prevention, poverty, rather than on climate change itself.


At some degree, I agree with them. In particular, I am not fully sure whether we can change the dirction of climate change. We might cross the river. Instead chasing rarely achievable goals, we may want to spend our time to adapt ourselves to potential changes from climate change and to make this world ready for the uncertain future. What we need is not a protest plan but a survival plan.