"The Washington Post reported Monday night that President Joe Biden is “considering whether to declare a national climate emergency” to “salvage his stalled environmental agenda and satisfy Democrats on Capitol Hill.” ...Bloomberg reports that an emergency declaration would “unlock” the president’s power to redirect “federal funding to clean-energy construction.”
...Which brings us to another small problem: There is no emergency.
Politicians might treat every hurricane, tornado and flood as an apocalyptic event—and then conveniently blame their political opponents for failing to rein in nature—but by every quantifiable measure humankind is less affected by climate than ever before.
Despite the massive expansion of fossil fuel use, despite the explosion of the world’s population, far fewer people die from the climate..."
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