With the new year, it's refreshing to see President Biden give an impassioned speech from Valley Forge. It certainly resonates with me. A friend sent me a link -- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/27/2214142/-Unequal-Presidential-Expectations -- to an article in The Daily Kos. Spot on.
Without going into U.S. and global politics, let's just review what a return to The Former Guy's environmental policies would mean.
- Pulling out of the Paris Accords
- Reversing the gains of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Gutting the EPA, OSHA, the Interior Department, and others
- Killing any chance of climate change reparations (nationally or internationally)
- Resumption of fossil fuel exploration and drilling
Need I go on? Vote Blue no matter who.
Meanwhile, in NM environmental stalwarts are once again pushing for a green constitutional amendment. That would bypass the governor's desk and provide protections like the ones in Pennsylvania and Wyoming.
I'm not optimistic considering that it's a short session. It's crazy to thing a 21st century state can be run on 30+60 days of legislative activity every year along with a volunteer legislature.
Nuff said.
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