Climate change is, in America, mostly either denied or waved away as impractical to solve even if acknowledged.

And our elections, though not really about climate change directly, are slowly steering more and more towards this direction.

Biden’s campaign sees fit to mention climate change to try and get young people to vote. However, as I have repeated over and over, Biden also brags about record US oil production, so his message is mixed at best.

In Washington State, an upcoming ballot measure directly aims to undo a not-very-old Act meant to reduce carbon emissions:

City Inside/Out: Washington voters to decide fate of state’s landmark climate policy

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Now whether the 2021 Climate Commitment Act (of Washington State) actually works to reduce emissions I do not know (and cap and trade schemes are now seen as mostly ineffective), but that the people who want to repeal the Act got so many signatures is telling.

Meanwhile, over in Scotland, the government is rolling back its commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by the year 2030, and the Conservative politicians are in glee over it (as an embarrassment to the SNP):

Scotland’s dropped climate target is major embarrassment for SNP, Greens, says Murdo Fraser


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