The Greenlash Is Built on Lazy Thinking, Writes a Climate Activist
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A climate activist argues that the 'greenlash' is built on lazy thinking, but HN commenters question The Economist's motives for inviting a young, female activist to write the piece.
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I think she's right about everything, but they could easily have got a bunch of gray haired older men with finance backgrounds like Kingsmill Bond to put this message across to their readers as a basic economic fact rather than a moral imperstive with a far different emotional impact on the kind of person who is skeptical on this topic.