Does anyone remember 2023? That legendary hottest year ever?
Well, with nine months of this year behind us, 2024 is now virtually certain to *beat* 2023 as the warmest year on record.
And still, Business As Usual goes on and on...
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
@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.
Bread and Circuses
Stefan Bohacek