Saturday, July 2, 2022

We're living under the Cult of Climate Inaction. It doesn't have to be like this.

You may want to see "Why the US is so horribly incapable of meaningful climate action." Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN. July 18, 2022. He predicts: "Don't expect anything large and meaningful from the US government."

"Less power for the EPA. In June the conservatives who will control the court for decades denuded the EPA of its ability to, as CNN wrote, broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants.

It also upended years of doctrine by which the federal government assumed authority to regulate everything from climate policy to worker safety.

Congress is dysfunctional. Busting the federal bureaucracy back to the Gilded Age might sound good in a legal seminar, as in demanding more guidance from Congress.

But the problem is that the growing tribalism of US politics means Congress cannot agree to do big things. Climate change, which scientists have long argued is ultimately an existential threat, is the biggest."



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