re: #36 BongCrodny

I dunno. I’m not sure there’s even a Plan A.

Deniers seem to have unlimited dollars to piss away in their attempts to muck up the science; combine that with their army of adherents that will refuse to believe no matter how compelling the evidence and it’s a lousy situation all around.

The President’s capitulation on the smog standards is further evidence of how the “nope, no problems here!” crowd dominates the conversation.

If we can’t have both a sound economy and clean air, what the fuck is the point of capitalism? Lifting people up while practically ensuring there’s a marked increase in asthma doesn’t sound like a fair trade to me.

We have made enormous progress already in reducing smog. It’s not clear that the proposed standards carry benefits commensurate with the downside. It’s not as if Obama is a tool of the fossil fuel industries. Maybe he just weighed things.

As to “marked asthma increase”, why would you expect a continuation of the status quo with respect to smog to be coupled with a big increase in asthma?