To hear Ron DeSantis tell it, policies designed to address the climate crisis are “part of an agenda to control you.” That’s utterly bonkers.
the fact that DeSantis was taking the climate crisis seriously in ways his Republican predecessor did not. The editors went so far as to describe DeSantis as “Florida’s green governor.”
This comes up with unnerving frequency. It was just a couple of weeks ago, for example, when Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsinthat those who believe climate science are “driven” by the desire to take “control over our lives.” At this point, we could marvel for a while at the tone-deaf hypocrisy, highlighting how ridiculous it is to hear the party of abortion bans, book bans, and LGBTQ+ discrimination whine about those who would try to “control our behavior.”