Where Does the Climate Movement Go Next?
Al Gore weighs in on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against the Environmental Protection Agency and explains why climate change is a “crisis of American democracy.”
By Lauren Jackson
July 1, 2022
The year was 1989. Al Gore was writing about countries that now no longer exist and world leaders who are no longer alive. But his message was the same: “Earth’s fate is the No. 1 national security issue.”
In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Mr. Gore wrote about America’s tense geopolitical standoff with the Soviet Union, invoking Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev in the present tense.
Still, his article seems eerily familiar. More than three decades later, the United States is again contending with many of the same national security issues Mr. Gore identified: nuclear threats, a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism and, to an even greater extent, the climate crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/podcasts/epa-climate-al-gore.html?smid=tw-share
