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title: "Climate Hawks and ‘Reverse Tribalism’: How Our Policy Choices Are Fueling Climate Inaction"
summary: |-
  What Americans would get behind as ‘climate policy’ is an aggressive clean energy innovation strategy aimed at developing cheaper and better technology options.
date: "2012-11-05"
issues: ["Clean Energy Innovation"]
authors: ["Matthew Stepp"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2012/11/05/climate-hawks-and-reverse-tribalism-how-our-policy-choices-are-fueling/"
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# Climate Hawks and ‘Reverse Tribalism’: How Our Policy Choices Are Fueling Climate Inaction

What we need today – and what Americans would get behind as ‘climate policy’ – is an aggressive clean energy innovation strategy aimed at developing cheaper and better technology options. Smarter deployment policies may be needed down the road to scale better technologies, but they would come with less baggage than the blunt deployment policies used today. Climate advocates and environmentalists need to forget about messaging and start innovating.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2012/11/05/climate-hawks-and-reverse-tribalism-how-our-policy-choices-are-fueling/*