Their position is driven by Culture War animosity towards greens, scientists, do - gooders and so on, or by ideological commitment to a conservative / libertarian position that would be undermined by
the recognition of a global problem that can only be fixed by changes to existing structures of property rights.
(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by
recognition of global warming and the role
of carbon emissions) and wider sectors
of corporate America to oppose the threat
of global warming not as an ecological
problem but as a
problem for unbridled economic growth.