It makes no sense for Therese Coffey to continue to vote against measures to prevent climate change

I found this analysis of the position of the new health secretary Thérèse Coffey informative,1 but one part confuses me. You mention Coffey’s opposition to abortion as she is a devout Roman Catholic and that, as a smoker, she has voted against smoking bans. I might not agree with these views, but they are logical and consistent. What is not logical is why on (a warming) earth she has “generally voted against measures to prevent climate change.”It is mystifying that anyone would deny human induced climate change. Neither the science nor our current lived experience would leave any doubt that the earth is warming and that the culprits are clear. Different opinions regarding solutions to this increasingly imperative problem are understandable (and possibly healthy) but to deny the existence of the problem itself is not.The answer seems to lie in politics—those on the right tend to deny climate change, those…
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