From Green Dreams to Grief Counseling: The Climate Lobby in Five Stages

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From Green Dreams to Grief Counseling: The Climate Lobby in Five Stages
11 hours ago Charles Rotter 
Charles Rotter

The New York Times recently published a piece titled “Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump”, and the tone could not have been more funereal. For an industry of professional alarmists, one might say grief is their natural habitat. But this time the grief isn’t over melting glaciers or theoretical sea-level rise a century from now. No, this grief is personal. Their taxpayer subsidy empire is crumbling. Their grip on Washington is slipping. Their “apex” moment under Biden—when they believed the Inflation Reduction Act had permanently remade the American economy in their image—has dissolved like morning dew in a Texas August.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/climate/environmental-strategy-trump.html
It’s almost poetic that the best way to understand the environmental lobby’s current condition is through Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous “five stages of grief.” They are textbook cases—grieving not the Earth, but their own waning power.

Stage One: Denial

The Biden years were their champagne banquet. The Times describes how “hundreds of billions of dollars of federal investment in renewable energy, batteries and electric vehicles was beginning to flow”. Coal plants were being shuttered, oil and gas drilled under suspicion, and money sluiced from Washington to every group with a clever enough slogan about saving the planet. This was their utopia, written into federal law under the banner of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The denial set in on Election Night 2024. Surely the voters couldn’t have chosen coal over climate, prosperity over precaution, reality over rhetoric. But they did. And as Trump moved to revive coal, “the dirtiest fossil fuel,” while boosting oil and gas, the fantasy of permanent power began to crumble. Denial still lingers in some corners, where activists insist that Net Zero remains inevitable, just “delayed.” In truth, what they thought was an unstoppable train was nothing more than a gravy train, and the conductor just hopped off.

Stage Two: Anger

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/16/from-green-dreams-to-grief-counseling-the-climate-lobby-in-five-stages/

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First of all, a person has to be aware there is a problem.  That is called Festinger's Theory of Cognitive Dissonance.  That is a fancy way to say something has to make a person aware a way of thought may be wrong.  THAT will always be an enormous problem with green brainwashed whackoes.