When it comes to contentious issues in America, our cup runneth over.
You know the list: guns, immigration and border security, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ rights — and the one that looms large this sizzling summer, climate change.
During the pandemic, my daughter spent a month in Maui. While the house where she stayed is still standing, the property was damaged. A friend who visited Lahaina with his family last year just learned their vacation home was destroyed. As columnist Amanda Taub recently observed in The New York Times, climate change will require new political strategies and agreements at the very time the U.S. is facing heightened polarization.
We disagree on its cause: 88 percent of Democrats and 35 percent of Republicans said that climate change was “entirely” or “mostly” caused by humans. Similarly, we disagree on solutions, with 76 percent of Democrats and only 17 percent of Republicans wanting stricter regulations. Ian Harrison, president and CEO of Washington, D.C.-based Bipartisan Climate Action, has a different approach in mind. BCA talks to and raises funds for members of Congress who are climate champions. Founded during the 2022 electoral cycle, the organization is focused on advancing “significant and enduring legislation to reduce carbon emissions while growing the American economy, creating American jobs, and advancing America’s energy independence.
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