Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
For the two months preceding the episode, US wage growth lagged behind inflation, putting near-term economic pain ahead of longer-term concerns like climate.
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Tim Miller flags a striking time-warp quality to the Aspen panels: climate is everywhere at the festival, absent from actual politics. Even DSA-aligned progressives who would have championed a Green New Deal in 2018 are now focused on Medicare for All, Israel, and cost-of-living. John Dickerson connects this directly to the Iran war: a 40% spike in gas prices makes it politically very hard to argue for policies that require upfront costs to secure a better future, especially when wages are trailing inflation for two consecutive months. The order of operations, he argues, always pushes immediate economic pain ahead of long-term existential threats — even when the California fires and extreme weather make those threats visibly real. The value of places like Aspen, he adds, is that these ideas get kept alive so that by the time politics is ready for them, the work has been done. [1] — John Dickerson "Climate has vanished from progressive political discourse, crowded out by a 40% gas price spike from the Iran war, housing, healthcare, and…" 23:05
The Iran war contributed to a roughly 40% increase in US gas prices, making it politically harder to advance long-term arguments about climate investment.
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