The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change | Climate Town

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an entertaining summary of early bipartisan climate action and corporate influence on research.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Climate Town

Topic

history of climate policy

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• We got surprisingly close, so close that Exxon had a division on renewable energy in the 80s (but then decided to spend that money on lobbying and disinformation instead). Climate Town has a great video essay on it: [VIDEO]

• When do you consider the left to have moved on climate? Climate change was a fairly bi-partisan issue initially. George Bush is famous for pushing cap and trade ideas in the late 80s early 90s for instance ClimateTown has a fairly entertaining video about it …

• By the late 70s wasn't a secret, it's more that nobody would listen over the sound of oil prices crashing half a decade later. Exxon even briefly had a substantial research division into renewables. In the 80s! YouTube channel Climate Town has a very good …