Professor of Sociology, Brown University Disclosure statementThe authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. What we foundsounded the alarm on climate change in 1988, three trade associations – the National Association of Manufacturers, the Edison Electric Institute and the American Petroleum Institute – banded together with a couple of electrical utilities to form the Global Climate Coalition, or GCC. They outspent those that support actions to slow climate change, such as the solar and wind industries, by a whopping $2 billion to $74