Two professors argue that Democrats can win voters on climate change by linking green policies to solutions for the cost-of-living crisis and focusing on the needs of working people.
Amid reflections on Democrats ' November losses and fears of what the Republican-controlled federal government will mean for economic justice and climate chaos, a pair of professors on Tuesday published a New York Times opinion piece connecting future U.S. elections, the transition away from fossil fuels, and working people's priorities.
\ 'If Democrats want to win voters with policies that avert catastrophic climate change, they need to bring immediate, material benefits to the working class,' Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos wrote in the Times. 'That means folding climate policies into an agenda that tackles the cost-of-living crisis. This is green economic populism.' \Cohen, an assistant professor of sociology and director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative at the University of California, Berkeley, explained on social media that the piece with Riofrancos, an associate professor of political science at Providence College, emerged from a project with Climate & Community Institute 'articulating the links between climate crisis, economic struggles, and the imperative to end genocide and forever wars.' \If we're going to secure a livable future, cities and states need to tether the green economy to changes that everyone can see and touch, not just the 1%. \Their essay followed Republicans taking control of both chambers of Congress on Friday and came less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House. Cohen and Riofrancos made the case that 'even under Mr. Trump, progressives can build momentum around this agenda' at the local level while planning for the future. Biden campaigned as a 'climate president' during the 2020 cycl
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