Can the Right Rescue the Conservation Movement from Climate Change Fanatics?

A new book shows how American conservatives like Teddy Roosevelt are the founders of the environmental movement, and it argues that today’s right should reclaim its conservationist legacy. Author of “The Conservative Environmentalist” Benji Backer, tells Lee Smith that preserving America’s natural beauty calls for free-market innovation, not leftist regulation.

01:05 Benji Backer, author, “The Conservative Environmentalist.”

01:19 Benji Backer, founder, the American Conservation Coalition

03:14 Backer started his own conservative environmental group

03:49 A conservative family that loves the outdoors 

05:47 Conservationist movement began with Republicans

06:18 Environmental challenges include carbon pollution and forest fires

08:28 Free-market solutions improve the environment

09:41 The cleanest countries also have the freest economies

10:17 US should prioritize domestic energy production, including fossil fuels

10:59 Return manufacturing to the US and use our own energy

16:26 Why climate change narrative turns off conservatives

20:33 Tackle environmental issues in a conservative way

22:33 Backer’s book focuses on what could be right

23:55 Farmers are stewards of the environment

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