https://www.noemamag.com/the-climate-wont-bend-to-trumps-will-to-power/
"Last week, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency
rescinded a long-standing “endangerment” finding that determined greenhouse gas
emissions were harmful to public health by accumulating in the biosphere and
warming the planet.
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who put in place many of the state’s
regulations to curb emissions, warned in a recent conversation that such a move
constitutes a fundamental assault on all progress so far. “If CO₂ is redefined
as a non-pollutant,” he told me, “then there would be no basis for the whole
regime of carbon emission regulation, whether from cars, factories, coal
plants, oil refineries or anything else. That would all go out the window.”
The danger of climate disarmament is obvious.
Unlike a supine Congress or weaker nations with an asymmetrical trade
relationship with the U.S., the climate will not bend to President Trump’s will
to power. Declaring climate change a hoax won’t make it go away. Liberating the
spew of emissions from further control will gravely compound the level of
pollutants already remaining in the atmosphere from the long tail of industrial
exhaust in the century before any regulation.
Even given all the efforts to stem the damage up to this point, the planet is
on track to surpass the critical threshold of a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in
global temperatures, unleashing a cascade of calamities from intense wildfires
and extreme storms to alternating cycles of drought and deluge.
What comes to mind by analogy is the criminal negligence of a parent who leaves
an infant locked in the car on a hot day with the windows rolled up and then
goes shopping."
Via Joyce Donahue.
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
