If You Frame it that Way, They Won't Like the Solutions

    All the climate-change folk want is to take away your freedom. That's the way many climate-change solutions en up being framed.

   And -- to be sure -- it's an effective way to kill those solutions.

   "(They) want you to get out of your pickup truck, out of your SUV, out of your home in the suburbs where you can have a backyard with your kids," Sen. Tom Cotton warned Fox News viewers last year.

   "There is widespread suspicion on the right today that liberals want to take away their way of life, Tim Carney of the conservative American Enterprise Institute told Insider. "This idea that the left knows there's only one right way to live, it's the way that we want to live and we're going to force it on you. That is in the background of the mind of every conservative."

   So, many come away thinking that the reason bicycle lanes are being encouraged is that the Deep State wants to rip you out of your SUV and land you on the seat of a bicycle. "We're going to force it on you," as Cotton puts it. 

   As long as the solutions are framed as conspiracies to take away your freedom, many people are going to reject them. It's a spin that isn't true, and a take that isn't right, but it's a good way to kill a lot of climate change solutions.  

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