Climate change politics are so vicious precisely because people's interest in it is so small.

This is an interesting way of putting it. Climate change is 17th of 18 priorities.

US priorities 2019:
climate still near bottom at 17 of 18https://t.co/KWXeeyp0p3 pic.twitter.com/QOLrjqnRxN

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) May 14, 2019

It is also the issue on which we are the most divided.

Climate is the most politically divisive issue in the US, with Democrats very concerned, and Republicans not veryhttps://t.co/KWXeeyp0p3 pic.twitter.com/e3k7Cjlygs

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) May 14, 2019

It sounds like a revamped version of an old saying.

Climate change politics are so vicious precisely because people's interest in it is so small.