Notes:

November 5, 2012, climate activist Bill McKibben debated Alex Epstein, an expert in energy and industrial policy.  McKibben pointed out during this debate, "Climate change is a conservative nightmare.  It is a political risk to freedom and liberty.  The further we let climate change get out of hand the more onerous the response it will likely to be."

McKibben quoted Brent Ranalli, writer for Globalist.com, the above quote and idea that climate change is a conservative nightmare.

Brent Ranalli's article lists serious climate change threats of "drought, new agricultural infestations, displaced internal populations, and security problems caused by mass migrations and failed states abroad."

Ranalli then argues Conservatives would suffer far more adapting to these threats than proactive international accords, such as Kyoto.

The costs of delay would be enormous, not just with economic and environmental damage.  Even worse, for Conservatives, to take national and global collective action to respond to nasty consequences of climate change could reduce "the very dimension that so worries conservative climate skeptics, citizens' liberty."

Therefore, Brent Ranalli believes, "Viewed in that light, American conservatives ought to be the ones leading the charge to preserve our current way of life from climate-induced threats."

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