.MaddowBlog: Sen. Mike Lee demonstrates why Congress isn't addressing the climate crisis.
Two months after rejecting the idea of wasting the chamber’s time on “show votes,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell scheduled a show vote yesterday on the Green New Deal platform. The idea, of course, was to play a little political game in which Republicans would challenge Democrats to vote on an ambitious and politically provocative proposal.
Yesterday’s theatrics were not, however, meaningless. The floor “debate” – I use the word loosely – brought into focus that Republican officials have no idea how to address the climate crisis, and don’t really have a coherent way of even talking about the subject. Jon Chait added, “While this portion of the speech is extremely stupid and dishonest, it’s worth noting that it is not the stupidest part of this speech. The stupidest part, in fact, comes at the end. Lee pivots from mocking the Green New Deal to insisting he does take climate change seriously, and he has a plan, a serious one, unlike the frivolous Green New Deal. His plan is for people to have more babies.” “Climate change is an engineering problem – not social engineering, but the real kind.
There’s no shortage of problems with an idea like this one, but let’s quickly note a couple. First, population increases make it more difficult to address the climate crisis, not less.
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