The GOP has spent the many hot years of Washington’s climate wars on defense, unable to articulate a positive alternative to the left’s grim new religion. It’s offered critiques—climate change isn’t real; climate change is overhyped; climate policies are costly, ineffective, stalking horses for government control—but never a rousing alternative.
Into this unholy war steps a new evangelist, Chris Wright, with a message that is as unexpected as it is compelling: If you care about this big, beautiful Earth, drill America. The former CEO of Liberty Energy—and Donald Trump’s new energy secretary—is a form of energy himself, enthusiastic about everything from the national-lab “gems” he’ll oversee to the potential for commercial nuclear fission.
But mostly he wants to pour his kilojoules into upending the debate. “The goal is to fundamentally change the public perception of energy,” he says in an interview. “To use that bully pulpit to end talk of ‘good’ versus ‘evil’ energy, to end the notion that more energy in America means more climate damage—those things just aren’t logical.”
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