Donald Trump and other like-minded conservatives remain quite willing to pollute and warm the planet most liberally. And it must be convenient for the very-profitable mega polluters.
To date there clearly has been pathetically insufficient political courage/will to properly act upon the scientific cause-and-effect of them. Human-caused global warming and its resultant increasing number and intensity of climate-change-induced extreme weather events rightfully continue to stir up alarm. Perhaps even for many of those people who still claim to distrust climate science.
Yet, increasingly problematic is the very large and growing populace who are too overworked, worried and even angry about food and housing unaffordability for themselves or their family — all while on insufficient income — to criticize the fossil fuel industry, etcetera, for environmental damage their policies cause/allow, particularly when not immediately observable.
There’s a continuance of polluting the natural environment with a business as usual attitude. Societally, we still discharge out of elevated exhaust pipes, smokestacks and, quite consequentially, from sky-high jet engines like it’s all absorbed into the natural environment without repercussion. Out of sight, out of mind.
… Obstacles to environmental progress were quite formidable pre-pandemic. But Covid-19 not only stalled most projects being undertaken, it added greatly to the already busy landfills and burning centers with disposed masks and other non-degradable biohazard-protective single-use materials.
Thanks for this. Sadly, this is a very cogent summary of where we are and how we got here. It's one of the reasons I wrote this a few weeks back: What Do We Do Now?
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Donald Trump and other like-minded conservatives remain quite willing to pollute and warm the planet most liberally. And it must be convenient for the very-profitable mega polluters.
To date there clearly has been pathetically insufficient political courage/will to properly act upon the scientific cause-and-effect of them. Human-caused global warming and its resultant increasing number and intensity of climate-change-induced extreme weather events rightfully continue to stir up alarm. Perhaps even for many of those people who still claim to distrust climate science.
Yet, increasingly problematic is the very large and growing populace who are too overworked, worried and even angry about food and housing unaffordability for themselves or their family — all while on insufficient income — to criticize the fossil fuel industry, etcetera, for environmental damage their policies cause/allow, particularly when not immediately observable.
There’s a continuance of polluting the natural environment with a business as usual attitude. Societally, we still discharge out of elevated exhaust pipes, smokestacks and, quite consequentially, from sky-high jet engines like it’s all absorbed into the natural environment without repercussion. Out of sight, out of mind.
… Obstacles to environmental progress were quite formidable pre-pandemic. But Covid-19 not only stalled most projects being undertaken, it added greatly to the already busy landfills and burning centers with disposed masks and other non-degradable biohazard-protective single-use materials.
Thanks for this. Sadly, this is a very cogent summary of where we are and how we got here. It's one of the reasons I wrote this a few weeks back: What Do We Do Now?
The challenging case for optimism https://leahy.substack.com/p/what-do-we-do-now