See the CBS News video Senators announce bipartisan climate caucus: "We look a bit like Neanderthals." Talk of going after "low hanging fruit" reminds me of Christine Lagarde's statement about the 2008 financial crisis in the film Inside Job: "And l clearly remember telling Hank: 'We are watching this tsunami coming, and you're just proposing that we ask which swimming costume we're going to put on."' At the time, she was France's Finance Minister, and would later serve as President of the European Central Bank and Chairwoman and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. This climate crisis is much much worse because natural systems that support many economies are in rapid decline.
Greta Thunberg recently tweeted "Again and again, the same message. Listen to the scientists, listen to the scientists. Listen to the scientists!"
What are they saying? Matthew Green reported at REUTERS October 12, 2019 "Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict 'incalculable human suffering.' [ . . . . ] 'The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action' [said Emily Grossman,] a science broadcaster with a PhD in molecular biology,'"
The CBS News video says "In our EYE ON EARTH series a bipartisan group of senators is announcing new action on climate change [ . . . ] Some prominent republicans are joining democrats to address the crisis." Something is better than nothing, but the speed of effort is too slow for reality outside Washington, D. C.
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