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\nObama wants an 80% cut in US greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He
\nwants the US to lead the global effort to combat climate change. He
\nsays he would invest $150bn over 10 years in clean energy.<\/p>\n
\nObama wants an 80% cut in US greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He
\nwants the US to lead the global effort to combat climate change. He
\nsays he would invest $150bn over 10 years in clean energy.<\/p>\n
Let us pray he manages to persuade the American people to vote for him.<\/p>\n
Whatever else may be unsavoury about him, about US politics, about
\nliberal America in general, at least this man sounds like a decent step
\nin the right direction! If the election goes in the other direction,
\nthe world will truly go to the dogs…..<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, of course, US politics is so corrupt, it is very much touch and go.\u00a0George Monbiot’s acerbic analysis of missle defence<\/a> Obama wants an 80% cut in US greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He wants the US to lead the global effort to combat climate change. He says he would invest $150bn over 10 years in clean energy. Let us pray he manages to persuade the American people to vote for him. Whatever else may be … Continue reading “Hope for the world….please!!!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nis a good description of how things work over there, and I fear how the
\nelection may go. It is truly unfortunate, and very difficult to even
\ncontemplate, but the urgency of climate change suggests at times that
\nour democratic governance is failing us – that it is simply not up to
\nthe job. The alternatives are unfortunately almost certainly no better.
\nThere is much debate over\u00a0large scale – even international – democracy<\/a>, and in these days of\u00a0public relations manipulation<\/a> one needs a lot of hope that things will turn out right in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"