More Bill

NBC wants to do a feature segment on the climate so who do they call? Good old Bill McKibben. This speaks to the total void when it comes to new, fresh, climate movement leadership.An article in the Guardian reports that climate activists are tired of being "hushed" and argue talking climate is not a distraction from the "affordability agenda". So what new, exciting strategy has Bill and the young campaigners come up with? " In other districts, organizers have circulated petitions calling on the House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, to prioritize climate issues or plan to call on their representatives to connect the climate crisis to recent heatwaves." That ought to put a fire under their asses! You could almost imagine that the fossil fuel industry is funding the whole thing. The "hushing" is something the Searchlight Institue has proposed after polling showed:"While battleground voters overwhelmingly agree climate change is a problem, addressing it is not a priority for them." For these folks, it's a problem, just not one they are willing to risk anything to solve. In other words, it's their children's problem. And while the children should logically be the ones in open revolt, their brains have been donated to tech enchantments. So there you have it. Sclerotic leadership, lazy, boring strategy, and more petitions as the world burns. Bill thinks the super- elNino will kick things into gear. "Many more will have to suffer, many more will have die - don't ask me why". The entire Colorado River system is in crisis mode. Do you hear anything about it? No, but when Jeff Bzos and Leonardo Di Capria give a few million to save species faced with extinction it's on the front page. A few million. C'mon. And now as fires rage across a burning planet, everyone breathlessly awaits the end of the Iran war so we can get oil tankers moving again. Exactly as happened with the pandemic, any slow down in fossil fuel emissions is viewed as a threat to our way of life, something to be avoided at all costs. Upside dwon world!