Is America going to lose its competitive position in the low carbon economy that we are headed for like it or not?

 

Or will American industry be in a position to thrive (in that economy) even if its home market is damaged ?

 

Will the public be in a position to boycott goods(or buy "foreign" product) produced by private companies that do not engage in making products for the low carbon future ?

 

What is the engine of the coming low carbon economy? The public? Big business? Government?

Deeply disturbing article on how fringe/pseudo science will be defining policy in future: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/house-science-committee-calls-on-alt-science-to-drive-policy/

Edited March 29, 20178 yr by Strange

To be fair, it is not a thing of the future. In situations where science clash with ideologies of major parties, efforts have been made for quite a while to undermine them. Just remember the creationism/ID teaching at school issue. In climate there is another issue where interest groups influence politics to their end and which requires a weakening of the scientific consensus.

Going further back as early as in the 1920s use of lead as anti-knocking agents has been recognized as a health hazard. Yet its health effects were long denied and there were advocates who would downplay toxicity data and researchers were threatened with lawsuits. Only in the 70s did public perception change sufficiently to initiate a phase-out.