As a conservative Gen Z environmentalist, I am often told the Left has the best climate policies. So I traveled to Chicago ahead of the Democratic National Convention to hear what they had in mind.
Their solutions to climate change, however, were worse than the problem itself and seemed to fully ignore the progress we have made.
Throughout the convention, I was told to give up meat, air conditioning, electric dryers, and even grass on my front lawn — dirt and rocks are more water-conscious, one woman told me. The U.S. military, specifically “the war machine,” was singled out by one man for its alleged pollution.
Nearly everyone I spoke to was also anti-car, at least the gas-powered kind. Solutions differed on whether people should cough up the cash for electric vehicles or simply rely on public transit. Most activists wanted a swift transition to electric vehicles that runs…
