Andrew Yang Is Not Your Climate Friend
Fleeing to “higher ground” isn’t an adaptation policy.
During the primary debates, Democratic candidates repeatedly accused each other of using “Republican talking points.”
But it was Andrew Yang who actually deployed a hyper-conservative argument on Wednesday night—albeit one that had somehow time traveled from the year 2080.
Asked in very general terms about his climate-change plan, Yang, a former technology executive, made a few points. Almost all of them were terrible.
“The important number in this is 15 percent of global emissions,” Yang
