In recent years, the idea of “common sense” has again catapulted to prominence in the conservative political landscape.
From United States President Donald Trump’s call for a “revolution of common sense” and his references to himself as a “common-sense conservative” to Pierre Poilievre’s references to his party as “Common Sense Conservatives” the value of common sense has been widely trumpeted.
As a professor in climate and environmental humanities, I’m interested in examining how this return to common sense tends to focus attention away from climate action.
