EPA Bracing For All-Out Assult On Staffing, Funding And On Legal Authority To Protect People From Pollution

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4. Well, if you count 1988 as the starting gun for climate activism, we're now in year 36 . . . .

And we can see how things are going, a full generation and a bit on from when Hansen went to Capitol Hill to say, in essence, "We have a problem".

1988 - 351.69 ppm CO2
2023 - 421.08 ppm CO2

At 2.13 billion tons per ppm, that's a net gain of 147.8 billion tons over 36 years. After 36 years of conferences and studies and "bold declarations" and consensus and innovation and politicl action and political inaction - and yes, climate activism - this is where we are. After 36 years, we've managed to add 42% of the total mass of atmospheric CO2 that was in the air ]in the year that I started counting for this example.

I very much like your idea of strengthening communities to prepare for climate-related disasters - in fact, we will have no choice but to do precisely that, saddled as we will be with a federal government that doesn't work/doesn't care and despises reality.

And maybe outreach/activism will work under such conditions, but with the degree of disinformation, misinformation and flat-out lies that currently permeates this country, it would probably be best undertaken simply as the right thing to do and if it actually changes minds (and I don't even know what "changes minds" means anymore here in the Kingdom Of Ignorance And Bullshit), it's gravy.