42 dead in the NYC area and counting. 800.000 customers without electricity in steamy NOLA this weekend. Probably over a trillion dollars in damages attributed to just one storm in a relatively active hurricane season. Climate change is here with a vengeance, and as with Covid, there are still a fair number of deniers.
As Paul Krugman notes in today's NYT, there are a number of corporations lining up against the Biden administration's 3.5 trillion dollar human infrastructure and climate change battling initiative because it would raise taxes on their profits to help pay for some of the bill. Krugman names the Walt Disney corporation as one of those publicly saying the right things while actively working behind the scenes to oppose the Build Back Better bill. As he says, these actors should be named and shamed. We are approaching the zero hour in which we can do anything to slow and reverse the worst effects of climate change.
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