President Obama’s Effectiveness with Respect to Climate Change
Here’s what I think is a fair and balanced article that presents the strengths and weaknesses of President Obama’s term in office vis-à-vis climate change. I like the way the author brings up some interesting and valid mitigating circumstances: notably the recession and the fact that this issue is only one of many with which a sitting president needs to be concerned. But I also like the way that Bill McKibben puts this into perspective: When we look back on this moment 50 years from now, this will be the key issue that we either addressed, or we didn’t.
It’s hard for me to get too amped up about a lot of our social woes, when we’re not going to have a civilization here in 50 years if we don’t address what we’re doing to our ecosystem.
I read the article and while it does acknowledge some basic facts, it is only slightly more fair and balanced than most of the writings coming out of environmental rags. Why doesn’t someone get a past senior level politician to write about how difficult it is to even get that sort of issue brought up, much less broached in such a way as to be palatable to the American people, much less the conservative members of Congress.