The United States, as the globe’s leading economic power, is uniquely positioned to lead the world toward climate solutions. ADChinese President Xi Jinping, unlike Trump, understands and accepts the scientific consensus about climate change. At the Madrid climate summit — where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is the highest-profile U.S. attendee — the assembled leaders will hear that prior assessments of climate change catastrophe were understated. We of the boomer cohort will long have returned to dust before climate change begins to feel like an everyday five-alarm crisis. ADOur benighted leaders fail to give us meaningful action on climate change because we fail to demand it.

Source: Washington Post December 02, 2019 22:38 UTC