https://archive.md/6vUF1
"My whole adult life, the work of fighting climate change was understood as the
job of the blue team in America. The red team, we knew, just wasn’t going to
play ball.
President George W. Bush abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, former Senator James
Inhofe of Oklahoma “disproved” warming by bringing a snowball onto the Senate
floor, and President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris
accords at a Rose Garden ceremony that began with “Summertime” playing in the
background. Periodic stories about red-state mayors pushing rooftop solar by
invoking libertarian values and Bayou fishermen lamenting the loss of their
land while studiously avoiding mention of sea-level rise were two varieties of
the same climate joke. Survey after survey showed the partisan divide on
climate was among the largest of any polled political issue. In the aftermath
of the signing of the historic Inflation Reduction Act last August, when I
asked Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington whether the bill might be changing that
partisan dynamic, he replied, “Absolutely not.”
I don’t want to be naïve, or to echo the predictions of previous climate
Pollyannas to say that Republican cooperation is right around the corner. At
the highest level, it obviously isn’t, and the work of decarbonization remains
overwhelmingly a Democratic effort. But the partisan landscape may be finally
changing, indeed somewhat significantly."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-maternal-mortality-high-seas-atlantic-forest/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
