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The stealth climate villains of 2020

Not all heroes wear capes, and not all climate obstructionists carry snowballs on the Senate floor.

Emily Atkin
Dec 14, 2020
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Do you know why the U.S. has never passed meaningful legislation to address climate change, despite how long we’ve known about its catastrophic consequences, and despite widespread public support for action?

The answer is encapsulated well in this 2019 New Yorker story by Bill McKibben: “Money is the oxygen on which the fire of global warming burns.” It …

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