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I just finished reading last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine article “Losing Earth” by Nathaniel Rich on the failure of elites to respond to the climate change crisis between 1979 to 1989. Since the author is the son of leading liberal pundit Frank Rich, it should not come as any surprise that it is something of a morality play with Al Gore, Friends of the Earth staff member Rafe Pomerantz and James Hansen on the side of the angels and John Sununu, Bush ‘41’s Chief of Staff, playing Satan.
Since the article is personality-driven, you don’t get any sense of the institutional and social pressures that led to action not being taken. Indeed, you might even draw the conclusion that if Sununu had been more enlightened, the planet would be in much better shape today.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2018/08/10/making-sense-of-nathaniel-richs-losing-earth/
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