What if American Democracy Fails the Climate Crisis?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/magazine/ezra-klein-climate-crisis.html
What if American Democracy Fails the Climate Crisis?
Ezra Klein and four environmental thinkers discuss the limits of politics in facing down the threat to the planet.
Credit.Illustrations by Francesco Muzzi
June 22, 2021
Of late, I’ve been obsessing over a single question: What if political systems, in the United States and internationally, fail to curb climate change?
It can seem an impolite question, even as it’s the path we’re on. President Biden’s climate agenda is both ambitious and, on its own, insufficient. Its political prospects are mixed at best. The international picture is little better. Only a few countries are on track to meet the goals laid out in the Paris agreement, and none of the major emitters are among them.
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