{"id":406098,"date":"2025-10-01T19:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=406098"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:26:54","slug":"climate-pragmatism-the-new-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=406098","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClimate Pragmatism\u201d: The New Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve yet to meet a blue-collar worker at a cleantech conference, nor have I met one at cleantech dinner tables. The industry needs to ditch its self-righteous virtue signaling and stop relying on handouts.\u201d (- a Cleantech veteran, below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs this really the climate movement\u2019s next chapter?\u201d asked<\/a> Stephen Lacey, cofounder and executive editor of Latitude Media<\/a>, a publication \u201ccovering the new frontiers of the energy transition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If so, it will end in nothing more than further alienating voters. The progressive approach to climate mobilization has largely failed to build durable coalitions and policies. The election of Trump clearly showed that kitchen table issues matter most. We are in an extraordinary moment where people are struggling to pay their energy bills \u2014 and this is the answer? I agree with Michael Liebreich<\/a> that we need a deep, pragmatic climate reset.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Bravo: And ultimately the reset will have to reconsider (ouch!) the case for climate alarmism and forced (governmental) energy transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lacey was referring to a Climate Week wrap-up article in The Nation<\/em>, \u201cWhere Did All the Youth Activists Go?<\/a>,\u201d with the summary sentence: \u201cThe \u2018Make Billionaires Pay\u2019 march might hint at where the climate movement is headed\u2014away from fossil fuel divestment and toward broader resistance, with fewer young people.\u201d Teen activist Keanu Arpels-Josiah<\/a> explained in the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 the fight for climate justice is the same as the fight against ICE. It\u2019s the same as the fight against the attacks on our trans siblings. It is the same as the fight against genocide in Gaza. It\u2019s the same as the attacks on affordability we\u2019re seeing across the country and across our city.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Interesting comments followed. Chris Moyer agreed<\/a>, stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If we aren\u2019t talking about household energy costs in 2026 and 2028, we won\u2019t just lose elections\u2014we\u2019ll likely set back clean energy policy for years. The current administration will blame renewables for price hikes, and voters will believe it, and the the wrong elected officials will hold power.

For the first time, the fight against climate change intersects directly with something broadly felt and politically potent: monthly utility bills rising in a meaningful way. We don\u2019t need to talk directly about climate change to actually address climate change! If we choose to focus on the climate crisis in the abstract or on unrelated issues, we will miss the moment\u2014and regret it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I responded<\/a> to Moyer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wind and solar (and more so with batteries) are more expensive except in flawed studies. Grassroot opposition (the real environmentalists?) is growing. The next elections will be won by energy exceptionalism, not dilute, intermittent, fragile, land-intensive, transmission-intensive, and taxpayer-dependent wind and solar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Another commenter, noting<\/a> his scar tissue in cleantech space, stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve yet to meet a blue-collar worker at a cleantech conference, nor have I met one at cleantech dinner tables. The industry needs to ditch its self-righteous virtue signaling and stop relying on handouts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I responded<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is crony capitalism that started with Ken Lay and Enron and the Republicans in Texas. And consider John Berger of Sunnova vs. everyone else. The Climate Industrial Complex is quite elitist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Zack Coman, energy and environmental reporter at Politico, then chimed in<\/a>, noting his new piece, \u201cWe are not winning\u2019: Greens look for new spark under Trump 2.0<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the debate continues, with the real free market coming into view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIs this really the climate movement\u2019s next chapter?\u201d\u00a0asked\u00a0Stephen Lacey, cofounder and executive editor of\u00a0Latitude Media, a publication \u201ccovering the new frontiers of the energy transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":406101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore the need for a pragmatic climate reset that goes beyond virtue signaling and addresses rising energy costs faced by daily voters.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Pragmatic Climate Reset: Moving Beyond Alarmism and Handouts","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691819134,691818056,691819668,691819743,691818618],"class_list":{"0":"post-406098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-alarmism","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-movement","11":"tag-climate-propaganda","12":"tag-energy-transition","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQNStSyavb_rssxLvLUk_nzcBjZ-IXl-lYny0Fk-n0tX1YW7L_jPKSnrJ4unfusJvxQ5mkQ_2riDQYo_8aVDkV-KBxFM1uJ6IHJqdZ94R_GmLuBPGKhpwkN0qnahmc71.png?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1HDY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":364879,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364879","url_meta":{"origin":406098,"position":0},"title":"Chris Wright: Guilty as Charged (DeSmog backfires again)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"05\/02\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"DeSmog\u2019s \u201cClimate Disinformation Database\u201d is so filled with quality and quantity that non-members are itching to join. 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