Elizabeth Kolbert wrote a great climate change piece in this week's The New Yorker called Storms Brewing.
Kolbert addresses Obama's abysmal environmental and climate change record, which includes greenlighting land for coal in Wyoming, delaying restrictions on permits for mountaintop removal and drill-baby-drill off Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico, and putting restrictions on limiting pollution from power plants just this past May.
And while Ms. Kolbert didn't say this, I'm saying there was no major federal effort to create renewable energy infrastructure throughout our land rather a lot of nuclear talk, and same old same old as the weather became more extreme in what experts say is in direct relation to our largesse energy use.
Kolbert mentioned that Obama looked around post tornado-attacked Joplin, saying,
"These things are beyond our power to control..."
Kolbert seems to suggest these things are in our control.
Or could have been if people listened, acted, prioritized clean energy and better habits.
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Photo I took last year in Santa Monica.
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