By Terry HansenSparta WIThe charge of radicalism is the default response by many in the GOP to any substantive climate action. Regarding Biden Administration climate policies, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell recently claimed: “Democrats say your financial pain is the necessary cost to make America more to the liking of the radical environmental left.”But George W. Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, who calls climate change the single biggest risk to the global economy, is not a part of the radical environmental left. We depend on the natural world not only for weather and climate, but also for clean water, pollination, fisheries, timber production, soil conservation, flood control and much more. Terry HansenSparta, WI 54656References:Mitch McConnell quote (paragraph 14)https://www.republicanleader. senate.gov/newsroom/remarks/ soaring-gas-prices-runaway- energy-costs-and-dependence- on-china?peek= CcvhfXoHcY60JmLa1% 2BJTfa268g4kqwQRz/ lrcGlN2IjkCne0

Source: Forbes June 13, 2022 01:18 UTC