Sandy puts climate change back on the US election agenda | Environment | The Guardian
North Carolina Republicans, at various times. have made an effort to pass legislation that would force everyone in the state to pay the same base premium for home insurance, in effect, forcing poorer mountainous counties to subsidize the wealthy coastal communities and their hurricane prone homes. This little bit of attempted socialism was the Republicans only sorta positive response to climate change, though they all seem to think oil drilling and fracking are also positive responses to climate change, which, of course isn't happening anyway so who cares?
Oh, and by the way, "normalcy" is illiterate, even if it was spoken by a POTUS; things should return to normality.
The images of a paralysed New York City at the mercy of Hurricane Sandy's wall of water have forced climate change on to the political agenda in the final week of the 2012 presidential election campaign. Campaigners said the devastating storm could turn out to be the October Surprise of the elections, exposing Republicans' failure to engage with an issue that is no longer a distant threat, but a present day danger...
North Carolina Republicans, at various times. have made an effort to pass legislation that would force everyone in the state to pay the same base premium for home insurance, in effect, forcing poorer mountainous counties to subsidize the wealthy coastal communities and their hurricane prone homes. This little bit of attempted socialism was the Republicans only sorta positive response to climate change, though they all seem to think oil drilling and fracking are also positive responses to climate change, which, of course isn't happening anyway so who cares?
Oh, and by the way, "normalcy" is illiterate, even if it was spoken by a POTUS; things should return to normality.
No comments:
Post a Comment