I should have stopped reading there, but I wasted several more minutes on this.

No, letting "country folk" pollute freely will not actually lead to a clean energy future.

The majority of country folk are Republicans, whose platform claims that the climate emergency is a hoax, and that America needs to pollute more.

And the worst is this - "country folk" already have a hugely disproportionate political power. A Wyoming voter has over three times the power of a California resident in the Presidential elections, over three times the voting power in Congress, and an astonishing 30 times the voting power in the Senate.

Your article was very bad, and you should feel bad.