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‘This was a terrible idea’: the incident that broke Republicans’ DeSantis fever
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Huh? Republicans care about the environment now?
When it’s in their backyard, absolutely. When it’s a condor habitat in California - that’s fair game for logging and agriculture.
My grandfather was a lifelong Republican but also a great lover of the outdoors and the national and state park systems. The idea of putting up golf courses on park land would have sickened him. He wanted people in the future to have the same opportunities he had to enjoy camping, hiking, etc.
I don't know why Rubio and Mast chose this moment to publicly fall out with DeSantis, but among the rank-and-file Republican voters there have always been individuals who cared about conservation.
The parks system was created by a Republican, but still, in recent years the GOP has been the party of resource extraction and climate change denial. It seems odd for them to pick an environmental issue, of all things, to beat Desantis over the head with.
It's basically environmental nimbyism, they want those areas for themselves. Unfortunately, they honestly don't think climate change is a thing or can't appreciate how it will affect those areas.
The main players in the party just pushed that too far and didn’t realize so many there were nature lovers (especially in FL where there are protected bird sanctuaries on the beaches, the entirety of the Everglades, Gopher Tortoise and Sandhills Crane protections, etc).
It's a mix, they like going to nice places, but they also like things that increase their property value. This hurts both of those.
The one thing that just about anybody inside or outside the U.S. can agree on is that we have the best national parks, and the most unspoiled natural beauty across entire swathes of land. This doesn't happen by accident. A love of nature transcends political affiliations. If anything I would say despite the social stigma of Democrats being "tree-huggers", it's actually conservatives and Republicans who have a vested interest in preserving and maintaining national parks and nature conservatories. Hunting and fishing in particular are big pass times in red states, so it makes sense that Republicans care deeply about the environment.
Climate change denialism only takes root in conservative circles because it's abstract enough to not be directly observable and is at direct odds with things like fossil fuels production that are major economic drivers in predominantly Republican controlled states. Although I think conservatives are finally waking up to that fact and are refusing to be spoon fed bullshit anymore. Hopefully not too late to reverse course.
Second-largest country on the planet checking in, with 90% untouched wilderness so deep that people routinely get lost for days a 10-minute drive from town.
Not the environment, the parks. I get those are basically the same thing to us, but not to them.
Nixon signed the creation of the EPA.