Prof. Aseem Prakash and colleague Prof. Nives Dolšak in Forbes write about Kamala Harris's climate pragmatism.
How should we assess whether a politician is pro-climate, anti-climate, or somewhere in between? We probably look at what they say and what they do. If so, we might be witnessing a climate policy convergence between Democrats and Republicans, much more than what is typically acknowledged. This means that some liberals are no longer climate purists and some conservatives are no longer climate skeptics. They are becoming climate pragmatists.
Kamala Harris’ Evolving Climate Positions
In 2016, California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris sued the Obama administration over permitting hydraulic fracturing. In 2019, Senator Harris co-sponsored the Green New Deal resolution. In the 2020 Presidential primaries, Candidate Harris said, “I’m committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all.”
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