The environment is losing. Which means we’re all losing.

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Environmental policy is losing voters’ support, putting at risk efforts to combat climate change.

Whether the goal is to reduce air pollution, keep pesticides and nitrogen out of waterways, enforce water conservation or, inAntónio Guterres, take the “exit ramp off the highway to climate hell,” the agenda to preserve the globe’s natural ecosystems has been set on its heels.

The double punch to the environmental agenda suggests other voter concerns are taking precedence over climate change and clean air, such as inflation — most notably, high energy prices. The result is resistance to environmental policies that impose visible costs on people. Hostility toward environmental restrictions has usually come from the right of the political spectrum.

The Biden administration has tried to get around the problem by branding its environmental program as a battle against inflation. Yet polling suggests that Americans think the Inflation Reduction Act will make inflation worse andRegardless of how the effort is branded, from Long Island to the French countryside, the message is that enough voters are not yet convinced that the effort is worth the costs.The challenge extends beyond the green agenda.

 

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