David Kreps Blog

Hope for the world....please!!!

Obama wants an 80% cut in US greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He wants the US to lead the global effort to combat climate change. He says he would invest $150bn over 10 years in clean energy.

Let us pray he manages to persuade the American people to vote for him.

Whatever else may be unsavoury about him, about US politics, about liberal America in general, at least this man sounds like a decent step in the right direction! If the election goes in the other direction, the world will truly go to the dogs..... .
Unfortunately, of course, US politics is so corrupt, it is very much touch and go. George Monbiot's acerbic analysis of missle defence is a good description of how things work over there, and I fear how the election may go. It is truly unfortunate, and very difficult to even contemplate, but the urgency of climate change suggests at times that our democratic governance is failing us - that it is simply not up to the job. The alternatives are unfortunately almost certainly no better. There is much debate over large scale - even international - democracy, and in these days of public relations manipulation one needs a lot of hope that things will turn out right in the end.

 

 

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