SuperCaliforniatedEspi...
What was that word? Ah…yes. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Well, the title doesn’t really work I guess, but it might just be California who saves us all. Why?
California is the latest entity to sue the fossil fuel industry, and this lawsuite has teeth. By now, if you listen to our podcast, you know that the fossil fuel industry knew about global warning over a hundred years ago, and actively worked to suppress it. Multinomah County (Portland, Oregon) is already suing for costs of combating climate change. There’s also that group of students in Montana who sued and won. So what’s different about the California lawsuit?
We get into it the details and implications in this Right and Freedom episode. SuperCaliforniated…uh, whatever. It’s pretty awesome, is the point.
Too Much is Never Enough
Almost every episode of Right and Freedom, we start out by talking about climate change. You know our views: as humans, we are creating climate change together and we should be solving it together.
On the west coast, unprecedented heat waves are killing people. On the south coast, hurricanes are getting more powerful due to the intake of hot water. On the east coast, this week smoke from the Canadian wildfires made New York look like something out of an apocalyptic movie.
And yet we have representatives in Congress right now who just tried to force the white house to undo the renewable energy parts of the infrastructure bill. Why?