We’re the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we’re the last that can do something about it.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has just announced A New American Climate Mission. This is the most comprehensive and detailed campaign against Global Warming yet put forward.He has remarkably detailed plans to go with that mission. It will take us a few Fridays to unpack it all, along with the rest of the plans that have been announced by Presidential candidates and NGOs and technology innovators. If you want legislative language, too, Inslee has pointers to bills passed in a number of cities and states on a wide range of such measures.
Also, the week before,
Earlier in April, it was Bernie Sanders.
Combat Climate Change and Pass a Green New Deal
Every Democratic Presidential candidate has had a great deal to say about the issue. Their plans are all a bit different, and I am sure, Dear Reader, that your plan is a bit different from any of them. Mine certainly is. I roll all of their proposed measures together, and add in many more, including the material I have been mining for these Diaries.
In spite of Republican maundering about getting rid of cows, we aren’t talking enough about fixing agriculture. Nor reducing emissions from production of cement, steel, ammonia, or petrochemicals, nor serious carbon capture (not bogus Clean Coal).