ASP’s Andrew Holland in The Allegheny Front
American Security Project’s Andrew Holland, Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, was quoted in a recent article in the Allegheny Front.
Entitled “GOP Energy Analyst: Engage on Climate Solutions,” Holland offers some advice for conservative leaders to act on climate change:
“What we need as a Republican Party is to get back to a place where we understand the scientific process and not engage in magical thinking about the future,” Holland says. “Because we haven’t engaged in this debate, we’ve left all of the solutions to be, you know, liberal solutions. We’ve seen the EPA moving to ban new coal power plants. Well, that’s a typical liberal solution—to ban something. Instead, what would be better would be market solutions: use the power of price to change behavior, to change incentives. But we have to first move from being a party that simply doesn’t think about this issue to one that engages in trying to find solutions.”
If you look around the world, Holland says, he’s not alone. Conservative leaders in many foreign countries are acting on climate change.
“Angela Merkel of Germany is a Christian Democrat of the Conservative Party and she’s very engaged on how to work on climate change. David Cameron in the U.K.., Shinzo Abe in Japan—these are conservative politicians that are engaging on trying to find solutions, not denying that there’s a problem.”
Read the rest of the article here.
