Al Gore’s Ted Talk on the ‘new urgency of climate change’: On meeting UN emission targets: ‘The annual reductions would be significant, on the order of what we’ve seen with the pandemic’
Democrats see ‘climate change’ as ‘political weapon’ for picking off key Trump 2016 voters – ‘People have moved on this issue…they are wanting the government to do more’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/democrats-see-climate-change-as-political-weapon-for-picking-off-key-trump-2016-voters by Abby Smith Democrats want to use climate change to build a winning coalition in 2020, not just to energize the party’s left-wing base but also to pick off center-right voters fed up with President Trump. The strategy bucks conventional election wisdom. Typically, candidates veer toward the center heading into a general election, tempering […]
Environmentalism’s Radical Next Generation
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/07/27/environmentalisms_radical_next_generation_500075.html By Ben Pile This past week, a new group calling itself Beyond Politics (BP) threw buckets of bright-pink paint at the entrances to the London offices of four global NGOs, including Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. “We have no words to describe our disgust,” messages left at the scene told their targets. “We accuse you […]