The best that can be said of the weak-sauce, Biden-centric, backward looking climate section of the DNC platform is that it doesn't hobble Harris and Walz.
As the US 2020 Presidential election cycle swings into speed, with Harris revving the Democrats into high gear and Trump melting down, the Democratic National Convention brought with it the release of the. With that document comes a greater opportunity to more finely determine how the Democratic party is considering climate action compared to other agenda items.
US climate change report card by administrations by Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist, TFIE Strategy Inc.on the last two Administrations’ climate actions as well as Trump’s climate pledges. That Democratic Party is the only choice for positive climate action is incredibly clear, with the Republicans being the choice for making climate change a lot worse.
Isn’t this supposed to be the Harris Presidential campaign platform? Five references to Biden between name, title, and pronouns in two sentences? The entire section is like that. Regardless, let’s press on. Good jobs for Americans is good policy. Clean energy industrial, manufacturing, construction, and operational jobs are much better jobs than slinging burgers at McDonalds. This is a segment where the inequity-increasing policies of both parties since 1980 have been in part addressed under the Biden Administration. The bottom half of the income distribution saw significant gains, with market incomes growing by 10.9% in 2021 alone.
These are true statements, but that’s not a pledge, that’s an assertion, and it’s not particularly near at hand. Nor is it by segment, where significant differentiation is possible. The goal of 50% of passenger cars sold being electric in 2030 is nice, but other countries are asserting 100% by 2035 as a fixed commitment. Ground freight decarbonization is missing in action, and maritime shipping and aviation don’t warrant a mention.
That’s nice. Per the IMF, the US subsidized oil, gas, and coal to the tune of $690 billion with negative externalities, a record-destroying amount in a year when the fossil fuel industry was seeing windfall profits. Under Biden, US extraction and export of oil, gas, and even coal shot up, along with US subsidies for the products.
Nope and nope. Americans can continue to build in flood plains and wildfire zones with impunity. The Democrats will increase FEMA payments, increase firefighting budgets, and fund cooling and disaster centers for municipalities that refused to limit sprawl into terrible land use choices.
It’s nice that Biden returned the US to the climate stage, but other countries aren’t looking to the US for leadership because they are looking at November as a coin toss that is just as likely to return the worst President of all. This isn’t hyperbole from a foreigner, this is the, mostly associated with the American Political Scientist Association, the leading professional organization for the study of political science that serves more than 11,000 members in more than 100 countries.
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