This is so important. When a country decides to politicize science, it loses the trust of those who don't believe the laws of physics to be negotiable.
And lower our clout on the global stage. nytimes.com/2021/04/19/cli…
And lower our clout on the global stage. nytimes.com/2021/04/19/cli…
We can build this back, but we have to build it back through our actions. Not just promises in Glasgow, but laws passed, regulations enforced. Give confidence to those who are watching our lips AND to those who are watching our feet.
I'm enormously encouraged by what the Biden administration is doing on both fronts. But we desperately need the @GOP to start engaging seriously, lest the rest of the world assume that our actions are only good so long as they are out of power.
So far, their focus on trillions of trees and more fracking... ain't that. And while there are some thoughtful voices in their caucus, they are in the quiet corners while the GQP-wing is ascendant. We need those voices at the corners to assert their will on their party.
But in the meantime, take hope from the fact that economics is on the side of the environment. Coal is being shut down because it's uneconomic. EV sales are ramping because consumers want them. Renewables are being deployed because they are cheap.
That doesn't mean we are moving fast enough. But nothing constrains a wayward political party as much as popular will. And the growing relative success of clean energy relative to brown energy is going to do a lot for that popular will.
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