[I forgot the footnote which is good in this case because it deserves to be its own thing]
**(Because this is such a polarizing concept, and because successfully curtailing emissions probably requires the vast majority of Americans to point in the same direction regardless of partisanship, that word "Stewardship" is going to be a major fulcrum. Slowing climate change (or at least contributing to it less, polluting less, etc.) can never be realistic if conservatives don't LOVE the idea equally as progressives. And that will require conservatives pointing in the same direction, albeit for their own reasons. I think this is as inevitable as it is good. In fact, I think there's already evidence that it's happening. Often using Christianity as anchor, there is a palpable uptick in right-of-center organizations arguing for slowing emissions (as well as curbing single-use plastics, deforestation, etc.) in the name of living up to the responsibilities of dominion over God's Earth. And it isn't all kumbaya or handwaving. In fact, in Utah last year, the conservative state senate took up significant climate change legislation because their minds were changed by the arguments of Mormon youth calling for better respecting the planet God gave them. Surely that's not yet enough to change the world. We're still not on track to stave off catastrophe. But washing this thing of identity politics and making it multilateral is a CRUCIAL step in us having a chance at all)
