Red states will be hit hardest by climate change – and Republicans don’t care
The IndependentThe climate world celebrated the passage of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act this week as the largest US investment to fight global warming in history became law, triggering $369bn in new spending on clean energy strategies. Even as Biden signed the bill into law, the federal government was imposing drastic water cuts in the American west and Mexico from the depleted Colorado River, targeting traditional red states Arizona and Nevada. To keep up to speed with all the latest opinions and comment, sign up to our free weekly Voices Dispatches newsletter by clicking here The culture wars era we are leaving behind will soon be viewed as a ridiculous time of apathy and stagnation as the political debate shifts to who gets saved and who doesn’t and what to do with climate immigrants. But the environmental tab for the time we’ve wasted since Congress first rejected Rep Henry Waxman’s climate bill 13 years ago during the Obama years is coming due, and it’s going to be far worse than thought, paid for in lives and livelihoods.
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