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When rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the assault hinted at the risks of politics unmoored from facts. That can threaten the very fabric of society. That an incoming U.S. president devoted part of his inaugural address to insist that facts are, in fact, factual reveals just how much of a beating the truth has taken. Over the past five years, politics have motivated huge swaths of the American public to abandon not just facts, but also the system of logic and standards of evidence used to establish facts in the first place. This phenomenon is widely known as “post truth.”
When rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the assault hinted at the risks of politics unmoored from facts. That can threaten the very fabric of society. That an incoming U.S. president devoted part of his inaugural address to insist that facts are, in fact, factual reveals just how much of a beating the truth has taken. Over the past five years, politics have motivated huge swaths of the American public to abandon not just facts, but also the system of logic and standards of evidence used to establish facts in the first place. This phenomenon is widely known as âpost truth.â
President Joe Biden President Biden has wasted no time in turning his campaign promise to take on the climate challenge into action. He issued a series of consequential executive orders in the first week of his presidency, punctuated by declaring one of the first days of his administration “Climate Day” at the White House. Among the executive orders the new president signed are rejoining the Paris Global Climate Agreement and scheduling an Earth Day Summit of world leaders to reassert American leadership, affirming our steadfast commitment to sufficiently curbing greenhouse gas emissi...
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