Interesting. I think that there’s always been a tension between labor and environmentalists.
In the long term environmentally friendly policies help everyone, but in the short term they often inflict pain on someone, and often the workers (or farmers) bear the brunt of that, so they oppose the changes. Consider closing down factories that are polluting, or forcing farms to stop using pesticides.
If you do feelgood environmental policy aimed at the emotional wellbeing of upper middle class academics on the back of, or with utter disregard for the working class, while the rich get to pollute all they like, you’ll get tensions with the working class.
If there now is no decent working class party, the working class voters will instead flock to whoever bashes the Greens the loudest. Guess who that is.
Interesting. I think that there’s always been a tension between labor and environmentalists.
In the long term environmentally friendly policies help everyone, but in the short term they often inflict pain on someone, and often the workers (or farmers) bear the brunt of that, so they oppose the changes. Consider closing down factories that are polluting, or forcing farms to stop using pesticides.
If you do feelgood environmental policy aimed at the emotional wellbeing of upper middle class academics on the back of, or with utter disregard for the working class, while the rich get to pollute all they like, you’ll get tensions with the working class.
If there now is no decent working class party, the working class voters will instead flock to whoever bashes the Greens the loudest. Guess who that is.