Clean

For some people the phrase virtue signaling has one meaning but for others it is a kind of selfish ignorance that can be seen in a climate change discussion. We want clean air and water so we shut down our nuclear plants, our fossil fuel plants and we go all in on wind and solar. We close our eyes to the mining of cobalt by children in Africa, the slave labor of Uyghurs in China to build solar panels, the burying of old windmill blades in Africa, the poisoning of the Yellow River in China and the Chinese building new coal fired power plants. Through all of this we can say we are for a clean environment and that is an example of virtue signaling.