Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, embodies this strategy of slow-motion mass suicide. Manchin “has long acknowledged the impacts of climate change in West Virginia,” according to his spokesperson. Some may say that, in the case of climate change, politics only gets in the way. But it’s still possible for public sentiment on climate change to move and for the end result to be the decisive political action we need. It’s easy to see why climate change as a siloed story—a special report cordoned off from the weather overhead—holds such an appeal.

Source: Fox News October 27, 2021 18:54 UTC