On climate change, zero-sum thinking doesn't work | Joseph Robertson

There are win-win solutions to this problem.

Democracy is not a zero-sum game. Behaving as if it is degrades democratic process and our personal political sovereignty.

A zero-sum game is a contest for control of finite resources. Whatever one gains, another must lose. When two or more candidates compete for a single public office, only one can win, so many people view politics as bloodsport, applying "winner takes all" thinking to everything political. But elected officials are not conquerors; they are sworn servants to all their constituents.