On the campaign trail earlier this month, U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker from Georgia delivered a strange defense of vehicles that spew gobs of pollution, celebrating their inefficiency. Walker, a Republican who\u2019s facing a runoff race against Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, told supporters at a rally in Peachtree, Georgia, that America isn\u2019t \u201cready for the green agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we need to do is keep having those gas-guzzling cars,\u201d Walker said. \u201cWe got the good emissions under those cars.\u201d <\/p>\n
It was a moment when Walker\u2019s absurd remarks actually squared with the party\u2019s line (unlike, say, his comments<\/a> about America\u2019s \u201cgood air\u201d deciding to float over to China). Republicans have said similar things over the years, displaying a worldview that fossil fuels have inherent virtue, once described as \u201ccarbonism.\u201d<\/a> It\u2019s the belief system that drove former President Donald Trump to bar California from setting stricter emissions standards in 2019, and what led Republican congressmen to defend fossil fuels<\/a> at the international climate negotiations in Egypt earlier this month.<\/p>\n