How Partisanship Is Holding Back Climate Action

How Partisanship Is Holding Back Climate Action

It's no secret that Republicans and Democrats don't see eye to eye on climate change.

According to a Pew Research Survey conducted earlier this year, just 12% of Republicans and Republican-leaners think climate change should be a top priority for the president and Congress. Meanwhile, the official 2024 Democratic party platform states there's "nothing more important than addressing the climate crisis."

Energy and environmental law professor David Spence says today's news and social media are partly responsible for the divide.

In his new book, "Climate of Contempt: How to Rescue the U.S. Energy Transition from Voter Partisanship," David argues it's all but impossible for the government to take significant action to address global warming in a media environment focused on persuading more than educating.

This week host Bill Loveless talks with David about his book and his perspective on the ideological polarization and negative partisanship that's been building in the U.S. in the past 10-15 years. And how he believes getting us all offline and engaging with each other in person can help push regulatory politics forward.

David is the Rex G. Baker Chair in Natural Resources Law in the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He's also a professor of business, government, and society in the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, where he teaches courses in energy and environmental regulation. And he's co-author of a leading casebook "Energy, Economics, and the Environment."

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