What Motivates Democrats: Stopping Climate Change, or Ending Capitalism?

Part of what makes the climate debate so difficult to engage is the diversity of motives. Wide-ranging proposals to stop climate change usually have several motives, and not all of them are related to climate. Some proposals -- such as the Green New Deal -- are so sweeping and socialistic that one can reasonably wonder if climate is even the principal motive.Take, for example, the risk of increased coastal flooding. Very few climate-policy proposals address the problem at all. In the recent CNN