Leadership

A common retort to America or Americans acting is, "It doesn't matter if China doesn't act. They pollute more than we do. We only produce [some fraction] of total emissions" or some variation of it doesn't matter what we do, we only produce a fraction of emissions. First, a lot of what China pollutes and depletes to do is to supply products and services that Americans pay for. If we stopped funding their supply, they'd stop emitting what we as users are ultimately responsible for. Don't tell PA or MA But more importantly, if you say that the US stopping its pollution and depletion doesn't matter, then tell the colony of Pennsylvania in 1775 not to become the first political entity in history to abolish…

I just returned from another event by environmentalists. As usual, they promote climate most, mainly through emissions, but also through ESG and DEI. As usual, they promote anything but sustainability. When they talked about circular economy stuff, they talk about mining waste streams, but not ending nonrenewable inputs. When they talk about plastic, they talk about increasing recycling rates, but not that its mere production creates pollution that we have no way of rending benign, not now nor in any plan on any meaningful level. You get the picture. They usually talk in bubbles that don't challenge that they lack a vision to reach sustainability. Many of their proposals don't help and often accelerate problems or at least distract from actually reaching sustainability by leading…