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."
I'm going to propose a very provocative, but I believe true proposition. That is, we're all living in a cult, and have all been living in a cult for many generations. For so long, it has long been forgotten that things weren't always like that.
— Stephen Barlow (@SteB777) June 12, 2022
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We are in a climate and ecological crisis and in the words of the IPCC and the UN Secretary General @antonioguterres, we are facing an "unliveable future", unless there is radical action to address the climate and ecological emergency.https://t.co/AMJozJWovj
— Stephen Barlow (@SteB777) June 12, 2022
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Again, I point to what the UN Secretary General says to show it is not just what I say. I'm not suggesting we just slavishly follow what he says. However, he was summing up the best scientific evidence humankind has on the situation.https://t.co/LsHJFqxVqm
— Stephen Barlow (@SteB777) June 12, 2022
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It really isn't in the interest of anyone that we fail to address the climate and ecological emergency, and create an unliveable future. However, it's in the interests of our leaders and the wealthiest and most powerful people, to put off taking action for as long as possible.
— Stephen Barlow (@SteB777) June 12, 2022
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The trouble is we have lived in societies controlled and run by powerful and wealthy people, for their own ends, for so many generations, that everyone has forgotten that it was not always like this, and need not be like this.
— Stephen Barlow (@SteB777) June 12, 2022
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I do realize that often activists, climate scientists etc, get accused of being the ones in a cult. However, this is a classic case of projection, because warnings about the seriousness of the climate and ecological crisis, are based on massive scientific evidence.
— Stephen Barlow (@SteB777) June 12, 2022
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Cults often do not die with their leader. You could argue that organized religions are very long-lived cults. This is why full system change is necessary, because the current system basically is this cult.https://t.co/YuHkVbEu46
— Stephen Barlow (@SteB777) June 12, 2022
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The famous Princeton study from ‘14 showing the people’s will has near zero effect on what government does & that outcomes r almost entirely driven by big $ & private interest groups is the skeleton key that explains EVERYTHING going on in America right now.
— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) May 27, 2022
— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) May 27, 2022
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