@breadandcircuses Rhetorical question, of course, but for those wondering:
"And you may recall that Reagan famously said, “Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.” And so this was the anti-government, anti-regulation ideology that drove his administration and that has really been prominent in our politics now for decades."
https://e360.yale.edu/features/they-knew-how-the-u-s-government-helped-cause-the-climate-crisis
James Gustave Speth has been calling for action on climate since serving in the White House in the 1970s. In an e360 interview, he talks about his new book, which chronicles how U.S. administrations repeatedly failed to act in response to scientists’ increasingly dire warnings.
Dal discorso alla Camera della presidente del Consiglio emerge una posizione chiaramente liberista, incentrata sul taglio delle tasse e sulla volontà di affidare alle imprese la politica industriale. Scomparsi i richiami al sociale, è cieca la fiducia negli spiriti animali della crescita. Come Reagan, 40 anni dopo. L'analisi di Alessandro Volpi