US leaders' climate legislation risks Children of Climate Change like US leaders risked Children of Agent Orange
The November 2022 election is critical, against climate change accelerationists.
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US leaders' climate legislation risks Children of Climate Change like US leaders risked Children of Agent Orange
The November 2022 election is critical against climate change accelerationists.
This week’s climate change legislation has some new green energy measures, but it opens up new coal and gas leases forced by the US right wing. Why does the US government show the world this failure of leadership? For, a risk is increasing that climate change will kill many of today’s children early.
US leaders have wasted almost 4 years, following the 12-year-warning in an October 2018 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It warned that the world had about 12 years in which to take serious action to try and curb climate change. Above a 1.5C temperature rise, more devastating consequences would occur. Despite having squandered almost 1/3 of that time, US leaders now give concessions to the fossil fuel industry. That is like accelerating before braking, as a car races toward a cliff. The concessions are described in a letter to the nation this week by climate champion Al Gore of The Climate Reality Project:
Fossil fuel interests forced painful concessions in negotiations – requiring the government to offer new areas for drilling . . . Lawmakers are poised to take additional steps that would fast-track pipelines that communities – and Climate Reality Leaders – have fought for years to block. New fossil fuel development would put the health and wellbeing of poor families and Black, brown, and Indigenous communities across the country at even more risk. . . .
The dangerous mechanism of tipping points in climate change makes those concessions a serious gamble. The risk is not diminished by the fact that in the US legislative system, fossil fuel interests were granted the concessions in negotiations. Indeed, after one day in 2021 with 71 tornadoes in a 7-state area, the current concessions amount to a roll of the dice on the tipping points. The tipping points contain such potential devastation that it is foolhardy to accelerate before braking.
Before this legislation, some children had already been killed by climate change. Other youth saw an increasing risk of death to youth.
Photo: Sign held by Youth at climate demonstration. pexels.com
How could US leaders could put children into such a risk? This invites a look at what US government has done to some children in the past. About 150,000 children in 2022 are living in Viet Nam with birth defects caused by US leaders having sprayed Agent Orange/dioxin/toxins. The spraying went on for 10 years. It was in an area smaller than half of the state of California. Enough was sprayed to harm Earth’s entire population several times over. Before the spraying, Viet Nam did not have such high numbers of children with birth defects. Yet even now, US leaders fail to fund these damaged children.
Photo: One of about 150,000 children in Viet Nam in 2022 with birth defects from US leaders spraying Agent Orange/dioxin/toxins for 10 years, 50 to 60 years ago.
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With US leaders putting children—of the US and the rest of the world—into more risk on climate change, urgency arises for the November 2022 US election. The public has the opportunity to elect congressional representatives who will step forward and lead away from the climate change accelerationists.