Religion News Service columnist Thomas Reese on how we can succeed on climate change, and why it's proving difficult to do so.
The biggest obstacles to alternative energy are no longer technical or economic. They are political. And there’s the rub.
The good news is there are ways to reduce and eliminate the growth in global warming; the bad news is I am not sure we will implement them fast enough., human-caused climate change threatens life as we know it on the planet. Sadly, too many people deny the science or don’t make it a priority. As a result, some politicians are not willing to make the tough decisions to deal with climate change.
The problem with taxing carbon is political. Voters don’t like taxes, and politicians are afraid to enact them.Rick Bowmer | AP) A car is parked by an electric charging station in downtown Portland, Ore., in 2011. More electric vehicles can help in the battle against climate change. Now that the credits are in the law, Republicans are going to find it hard to repeal them. Individual and corporate taxpayers will get mad at anyone trying to repeal what they now consider their right. Republicans will be accused of trying to raise taxes, something they always accuse Democrats of doing.
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