Wide Angle Lunch - Shannon Smith

Shannon Smith
Why Climate Change is not a Left-Wing Issue

The association of figures such as Al Gore with the man-made climate change camp have created a peculiarly American myth: that people whose political beliefs generally fall on the “Left” agree with him on environmental issues, while any “Right”-thinking person must doubt man’s impact on global warming. Shannon Smith is the founder and President of the Charlotte-based Abundant Power Group, which seeks to bring private capital solutions to clean energy initiatives and has advised Charleston and the State of SC on funding a green building program in Charleston county. Previously Managing Partner and founder of Blue Point Capital Partners, a $1bn private equity company, his membership of the board of the Clean Economy network and the Southeast Board of Environmental Defense Fund, co-chairmanship of CleanPac, a bi-partisan political action committee, and seat on the Leadership Council of the American Council on Renewable Energy, put him in a unique position to explain how we might repair this Right/Left climate change dichotomy.