![]() What can be done to avoid catastrophe? Many economists favor broad-based incentives to limit emissions, such as a carbon tax. The extreme weather events we’ve recently seen around the globe - severe drought and forest fires in the American West intensified hurricanes, catastrophic flooding in Europe heat waves pushing temperatures in the Middle East above 120 degrees - are exactly the kinds of thing climate scientists warned us to expect as the planet warms.Īnd this is just the beginning of the nightmare - the leading edge of a wave of disasters, and a harbinger of the crisis heading our way if we don’t act quickly and forcefully to limit greenhouse gas emissions. To say what should be obvious, the dangers of climate change are no longer hypothetical. But the Walt Disney Company, along with other corporate titans, including ExxonMobil and Pfizer, is reportedly gearing up to support a major lobbying effort against President Biden’s $3.5 trillion investment plan - a plan that may well be our last chance to take serious action against global warming before it becomes catastrophic. OK, that’s probably not what Disney executives think they’re doing. ![]() Why does Mickey Mouse want to destroy civilization?
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