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Every elected Democrat should be talking like this ... and acting on it. [1]
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Date: 2023-08-12
Al Gore’s recent TED Talk: What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know. I wish I could edit out the annoying ads, but they are brief.
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To bad Gore isn’t the senior senator from West Virginia instead of the guy who is. As good and direct and urgent as his talk is, I wish its missing piece wasn’t how specifically to get the fossil fuel lobbyists out of the way of what must be done if we going to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change. We need a new strategy and right now we seem to be stuck on tactics. The fact that the COP28 in November-December is being chaired by the Abu Dhabi oil executive ought to provide evidence enough that our current strategy is not up to the difficult task ahead.
Every Democratic candidate in the coming elections should be asked what policy that does not now exist would they initiate or support to address the situation Gore describes in order to deal with the climate crisis. Any candidate who doesn’t have a ready answer should sure as hell get one.
But I think we’re fooling ourselves if we think we can get on the right track to do that avoiding solely by voting.
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