Journalist David-Wallace Wells (“The Uninhabitable Earth“), discussing the COVID-19 crisis, on Twitter, March 17.
We have seen the unfolding wings of climate change.”
Australian filmmaker Lynette Wallworth, quoted in “The End of Australia as We Know It,” by Damien Cave, New York Times, February 16.
The dangers of climate change are no longer predictions about the future.”
NY Times op-ed columnist (and 2008 Nobel laureate in economics) Paul Krugman, in “Apocalypse Becomes the New Normal,” The New York Times, January 2.
Until there are penalties for emitting carbon, clean alternatives will just meet new energy demand. They are not currently displacing ‘fossil fuel use to any great extent’ and will not in the future.”
Robinson Meyer, commenting on three linked articles by the Global Carbon Project, in 5 Big Trends That Increased Earth’s Carbon Pollution, The Atlantic, Dec. 3. The quote is from the project’s article in Nature Climate Change (links are in the Atlantic article).
The next U.S. president can save more lives and better improve human health by slowing climate change than by improving health insurance.”
New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, in The Most Pressing Issue for Our Next President Isn’t Medicare, October 27.
“In terms of CO2’s greenhouse effect, today’s world is already as far from that of the 18th century as the 18th century was from the ice age.”
What Goes Up, The Economist, Sept 21-27 (subscription required).
You shouldn’t be able to externalize these costs. That’s the problem with fossil fuels.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, at the Democratic presidential candidates’ climate debate, Sept 4. [link TK]
The morning after he dropped out, Inslee announced he would seek a third term as governor of Washington. A number of journalists tweeted that he would do well as the next Democratic EPA administrator. I disagree. The EPA’s ambit is too narrow, and climate change too sprawling, for Inslee’s time and talents. If the 2020 Democratic nominee, whoever it is, really wants to tackle climate change as their own plan discusses it—as an issue afflicting the whole economy—then they’ll need to show that someone in their administration can tackle it at the whole-economy level. They’ll need to put their money, in other words, where their Medium post is. They could start by calling Jay Inslee. He would make an excellent vice president.”
Robinson Meyer, in For Democrats, When Does Climate Change … Actually Matter?, The Atlantic, August 22.
Germany’s Greens recently learned from a study of voter concerns in Europe that the second-most-popular statement among far-right voters, after one on limiting migration, was this: ‘We need to act on climate change because it’s hitting the poorest first and it’s caused by the rich.’
New York Times, Greens Aim to Make Climate a Bread-and-Butter Issue, July 14.
It’s not surprising that if you raise the price of something, people will buy less of it.”
Christina A. Roberto, health policy expert at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and lead author of a JAMA study of Philadelphia’s soda tax, quoted in Tuesday Could Be the Beginning of the End of Philadelphia’s Soda Tax, New York Times, May 21.
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