Project 2025 Operative: GOP Environmental Policy Is "Silly," "Selfish"

The GOP, Meadowcroft said in secret recordings taken by the Centre for Climate Reporting, transcripts of which were shared with The New Republic, tends to believe "that environmental care is not something you have to care about. You just produce enough wealth, and then you can just buy your way out of whatever pollution deficit you put yourself into later. So it's a luxury good.

Keep industrializing. Keep doing whatever. We'll worry about it later.

And someone will have a technological breakthrough, and it'll eat all the plastics in the ground." Meadowcroft called the approach "a silly thing to count on as a selfish, definite, you know, assured prophecy thing." Meadowcroft did not respond to a request for.

.. Kate Aronoff.