As the West deliberates its ties to Russian natural gas, linked through Europe’s landscape in a tapestry of pipelines, it’s worth considering our links more generally to unsustainable, tenuous and deadly energy sources, writes Cash Mendenhall.
After years of very little rainfall, the lakebed of Suesca lagoon sits dry and cracked, in Suesca, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. The basin which is dependent on runoff has suffered severe deforestation and erosion, which together with the added impact of climate change has led to a significant reduction of its water level.
As a high school student, I inhabit a generation whose political space is consumed by a near-omnipotent level of climate anxiety. In the next 20 years, the IPCC reports that global temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, with accelerating consequences. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls the report a “code red for humanity.”
Utah is not far from the front line of the impending climate crisis, one that will upend not only our economic and political existence but the viability of our continued life on this planet. This much, unfortunately, is obvious. Solutions are less so, and an issue so complex and nuanced could not possibly be addressed in a myopic manner.policy.
Such an elegantly simplistic solution may seem confined to a certain level of economic dreaming, but it holds surprisingly pragmatic promise. It’s also by no means unpopular. The bipartisan momentum that this policy summons is a breath of fresh air in federal politics, garnering support from everyone from Sen. Bernie Sanders to Utah’s Sen. Mitt Romney. The political winds are gathering, from Sen. Joe Manchin’s openness to working towards such a plan in Congress to North Dakota’s Republican Sen.
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