
In an
excerpt from his book
Hell and High Water, Joe Romm, whose blog
Climate Crisis is rapidly becoming my favorite, has a really good insight about the current regulatory stalemate between the U.S. and countries like China and India on capping or reducing global warming emissions. The insight is this: We are in a mutual suicide pact!
After all, China and India won't reduce their emissions until we do, and we won't reduce ours until they do!
This mutually assured destruction is courtesy of assholes like
Frank Luntz, (whose entire livelihood is based manipulating words to exploit and exacerbate the problems created by miseducation and ignorance) who advised our traitorous and stupid president, George Bush in 2002 thus:
The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science...Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate, and defer to scientists and other experts in the field.
And thus:
The “international fairness†issue is the emotional home run. Given the chance, Americans will demand that all nations be part of any international global warming treaty. Nations such as China, Mexico and India would have to sign such an agreement for the majority of Americans to support it.
Hey — thanks for the kind words.
Keep up the great blog!
very insightful. mutual suicide pact… scary but true. sad to say.