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How to Avoid A Climate Backlash By Philip Elliott Washington Correspondent, TIME Editor's note: Phil will return with columns next week. Meanwhile, we're highlighting an incisive report from Justin Worland on the simmering climate change backlash and what it means for the 2024 elections. Six months after being ousted as the supervisor of Green Charter Township in rural western Michigan, Jim Chapman is sitting at the dining table in his son’s house, a haven from the dirty looks and death threats that continue even now. A self-described conservative Republican, Chapman says his downfall was negotiating to bring a $2.4 billion electric-vehicle-battery plant owned by a Chinese company to town. The backlash was swift and withering. A recent caller left a voicemail threatening to target Chapman and “exercise my Second Amendment rights.” Another said he would call up his local militia. “This Neanderthal response has been the core of the problem,” says Chapman. For a growing number of activists, he was just the start. Read the Story » Share This Story

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