”The Heart Decides and Reason Justifies”: A conservative climate activist’s evolution

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Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) was proud of his Tea Party bona fides, until his son said he couldn’t vote for a climate change denier. Inglis wound up changing his mind, and gained one vote but lost a lot more — he’s now a former congressman, on a mission to recruit more conservatives to the climate cause. You can find out more about Inglis’ organization at RepublicEN.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox, and welcome to With Friends Like These Converts edition.
0:10.8	What do you think of when I say conservative climate activists?
0:17.2	Perhaps you laugh dismissively, haha, perhaps you draw a complete blank.
0:21.8	Perhaps you get a little wistful.
0:23.9	Thinking of how nice it would be if climate change wasn't an ideological issue.
0:29.1	But you probably can't think of one.
0:31.9	Today, I am going to introduce you to a real-life conservative climate activist.
0:37.6	His name is Bob Englis.
0:38.9	He's the executive director of RepublicE-N.org, which promotes solutions to climate change
0:44.8	using the free market.
0:46.6	He's been on the pod before, but we're revisiting our conversation and checking in again in the
0:51.8	context of this season.
0:54.0	We had a chance to talk about how recruitment is going for him and what kinds of revelations
1:00.2	he's made along the way.
1:03.0	Bob Englis, coming right up.
1:06.7	Welcome back to the show.
1:08.0	Great to be with you, thanks.
1:09.4	So you were on before, so I am familiar with your story, but I think we should review
1:14.0	it.
1:15.0	Tell us who you were in the before time.
1:18.6	For six years in Congress saying that climate change was nonsense, all I knew about it was
1:25.8	that Al Gore was for it, and in as much as he was for it, I was against it.
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