It was Al Gore, the former vice president, who drew a straight line between gun policy and climate policy. He spoke with the conviction of a man who knows American politics from the inside, and he spoke with anger and grief:
“Some of the same reasons why the United States has been incapable of responding to these tragedies are the same reasons — lobbying, campaign contributions, the capture of policymaking, the control of politicians with money, lobbyists — that it has been impossible to pass climate legislation,” Gore said. “Our democracy has been paralyzed, bought, captured. It has to stop.”
This week, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, forced the author to connect the safety of our children in a country awash in guns to the safety of our children on a hotter planet.
By Somini Sengupta. The New York Times/Climate Forward. May 27, 2022.
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