The Purple Network Opinion Duel: Is Enough Being Done to Halt Climate Change?

The Purple Network Opinion Duel: Is Enough Being Done to Halt Climate Change?

The Purple Network Opinion Duel: Is Enough Being Done to Halt Climate Change?

The second in a series of debates between The Nation and National Review, moderated by Roll Call.

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In the second installment of The Purple Network’s “Opinion Duel,” Roll Call’s Editor-in-Chief Christina Bellantoni moderated a discussion with Charles C. W. Cooke, from National Review and The Nation’s Zoë Carpenter over the widely debated topic of climate change. Carpenter and Cooke discussed if anything was being done to address climate issues and how this debate has shifted the political landscape. Cooke and Carpenter also detailed the industry’s “big money” in politics and how it sways popular opinion.

Is the Executive Branch’s involvement in regulating energy standards the only way to change energy production? Led by Bellantoni, Carpenter and Cooke discuss.

Watch the discussion below, and then watch the first installment in Opinion Duel on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

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