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Steve, I’m so glad to be able to communicate with you. Forgive me if I’m communicating on an inappropriate thread.
I’m trying to negotiate your new venture on Substack. I have a number of other folks I follow with paid subscriptions, but continue to have difficulty signing in to your account. I am unsure of how to address this.
The substantive comment I want to make, however concerns your interview with the Republican national committee Environmental platform writer this past week. There was a decided lack of urgency about the climate issue and, while you pressed her at least twice to “name the environmental scientists, who agree with you,“ like the vice presidential candidate of John McCain, when asked “what publications do you read?“ She answered “all of them.“
The very same day there were headlines that one of the major home insurance companies in Florida had withdrawn support from people who have paid premiums for many years and now were left with houses that were not habitable due to prior hurricane damage, and for which they would not receive any further funds.
Would that information have been useful to query this republican platform writer to the facts suggesting that climate change is not a Biden, liberal, social democratic issue, but one that is apolitically affecting many citizens?
Ty
It is a very difficult question to answer, because of how close we are to the edge of losing it completely. The support that Trump still has have been convinced that these charges were orchestrated by the White House. I believe that live testimony is needed to show transparency. We are starting to hear some republicans turn on him (Barr and Pence) particularly. The more that turn the more democracy backs away from the cliff. But hearing comments from the likes of Graham and Rubio suggest we are still to close to the edge.