Matthew Haugen

@MJHaugen

Energy and Planning Manager @cplusci (opinions expressed are my own)

Birmingham, AL terrain.news Joined June 2009

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Matthew Haugen @MJHaugen 19h

Excellent answer here by @WeWillMi nytimes.com/2026/11/10/cli…

My colleague Brad Plumer wrote last week that Democrats now seem to de-emphasize climate issues. Why do you think that happened and do you think it’s a permanent shift?

We’ve got cascading crises, one on top of another. We’ve got a climate crisis. We’ve got a cost-of-living crisis. We have wars breaking out in more theaters around the globe and figuring out how to wrap that all up into one neat story is not easy for any of us. But my message on the campaign is about security. Security in the sense of being able to look forward to the future and be secure at night knowing that we and our kids are going to be taken care of, that we’re going to be OK. Climate is as important to that as it’s ever been.

Matthew Haugen @MJHaugen 23h

Peoples' policy views are heterogeneous but also often contradictory and malleable

Matthew Haugen @MJHaugen 1d

I think that reinforcing reactionary framings of issues is bad in the long term and ultimately undermines progress. I would like to have more debate over normative goals than unfalsifiable claims about strategy in unrepeatable events with infinite variables.

Matthew Haugen @MJHaugen 3d

It is funny that ecomodernists are just straight-up pro-fossil-fuels now

Matthew Haugen @MJHaugen 4d

Bernie Sanders will go down as the most consequential politician of this era despite never becoming president