> Many in Ocean City, NJ oppose a major wind farm to be built off their shores, and hope to create a template for blocking similar projects on the East Coast
It wasn’t fully polarized by party until around 2009, when the fossil fuels industry decided to buy off the Repiblicans in response to an attempt to pass cap and trade legislation.
It’s also an interest rate problem. Renewables substitute interest payments for a large up-front capital investment for fuel payments over the useful life of the project. When interest rates rise, it makes renewables less attractive.
Once you get that, you infiltrate a bunch of social trust networks, and get the people who are trusted by a lot of people to lie. Some will do it for approval, some for money. Then you push a bunch of petromasculinity to get people to think that it’s a core part of their identity, so they’ll fight tooth and nail to keep on burning stuff.
But people aren’t uniformly distributed across the land; they’re disproportionately concentrated in cities. So the average person holds very different views form the average location.
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> Many in Ocean City, NJ oppose a major wind farm to be built off their shores, and hope to create a template for blocking similar projects on the East Coast
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