Excitable Paul Krugman: Climate Change Is Bringing The Apocalypse

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 15:01

I’ll be honest, I have no idea what the screed by Krugman says, the headline caught my attention




Do we care what this nutter is writing?
We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave. Also a temperate heat wave and an Arctic heat wave, with temperatures reaching the high 80s in northern Norway. The megadrought in the Western United States has reduced Lake Mead to a small fraction of its former size, and it now threatens to become a “dead pool” that can no longer supply water to major cities. Climate change is already doing immense damage, and it’s probably only a matter of time before we experience huge catastrophes that take thousands of lives.

And the Republican majority on the Supreme Court just voted to limit the Biden administration’s ability to do anything about it.
Damned the court for upholding the Constitution! We have doomsday cult rules to put in place. Ones that never seem to affect the rich folks, ones they never voluntarily follow, but, hey, sure, why not?
And partisanship is the central problem of climate policy. Yes, Joe Manchin stands in the way of advancing the Biden climate agenda. But if there were even a handful of Republican senators willing to support climate action, Manchin wouldn’t matter, and neither would the Supreme Court: Simple legislation could establish regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions and provide subsidies and maybe even impose taxes to encourage the transition to a green economy. So ultimately our paralysis in the face of what looks more and more like a looming apocalypse comes down to the G.O.P.’s adamant opposition to any kind of action.
The question is, how did letting the planet burn become a key G.O.P. tenet?
OK, this is all about politics. Which should be no shocker to anyone paying attention. It’s been about politics since the Soviet Union fell and and far left joined the environmental movement. Watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside.

Why, exactly, are authoritarian right-wing parties anti-environment? That’s a discussion for another day. What’s important right now is that the United States is the only major nation in which an authoritarian right-wing party — which lost the popular vote in seven of the past eight presidential elections yet controls the Supreme Court — has the ability to block actions that might prevent climate catastrophe.
Got that? Requiring the Legislative Branch to do its job and restricting the Executive Branch from creating unauthorized Big Rules is authoritarian.
Meanwhile, more unhinged doomsday cultists



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