<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">MarketWatch March 6, 2020</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Why don’t we panic about climate change like we do coronavirus?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(46, 46, 46); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Short-term politics and human nature shape a bias to address only what’s right in front of us</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">By Rachel Koning Beals</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-dont-we-panic-about-climate-change-like-we-do-coronavirus-2020-03-06" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-dont-we-panic-about-climate-change-like-we-do-coronavirus-2020-03-06</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">On August 21, 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that “…many scientists say deep emissions cuts are necessary … to prevent … dangerous consequences of global warming,” and concluded that, "Getting from here to there would require a massive economic shift.”<br class=""></span><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><br class="">There’s likely been no better summary of the Green New Deal’s basic rationale.</span> In just these few words, the Journal pointed directly to a dangerous trend, identified how to turn it around, and did that 10 years before the Sunrise Movement caught the attention of newly elected US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<br class=""><br class=""><<<a href="https://mountainjournal.org/green-new-deal-faces-uphill-fight-in-wyoming-and-montana-coal-country" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/green-new-deal-faces-uphill-fight-in-wyoming-and-montana-coal-country</a>>></span></div></div></div></div>
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