“The fossil-fuel industry has clouded our politics as thoroughly as it has clouded our air,” BillMcKibben writes, “but the hope is that today’s haze will help illuminate that deeper murk.”
The Administration also, of course, managed to oversee passage of the, the first truly serious climate bill our government has ever passed—and it is already working, with groundbreakings for battery factories now a commonplace. But we’ve waited so long to address the climate crisis that an on-the-one-hand approach seems almost comically insufficient, especially today.
Young people are leading most of the fight here. I’m sitting next to activists from a group called Climate Defiance, which has been bird-dogging Manchin and other officials in recent weeks. But the line of twenty-odd rocking chairs I’m sitting in are occupied by members of Third Act, a group that I helped form a year or so ago to mobilize people over the age of sixty.
The groups who organized this protest are demanding that the President declare a “climate emergency,” which seems both entirely appropriate and almost superfluous—the air has already declared a climate emergency. The police may clear us away soon, and the smoke will eventually clear, too, but scenes like this must linger. ♦
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