“..One of the most frustrating things about covering national energy politics is that conventional wisdom in D.C. never seems to change.
The incestuous circle of journalists, pundits, lobbyists, and lawmakers known as The Village has its own set of narratives about climate/energy policy.
Those narratives are a) completely at odds with the rest of the world’s and b) absolutely impenetrable.
For years I’ve wondered if events might finally shift those narratives, but they have incredible tensile strength.
They occasionally bend, but they always pop back.
Like George Lakoff always says: when the facts don’t fit the frame, it’s the facts, not the frame, that are discarded.
The central narrative is, of course, one of risk and fear..”
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