Happy Earth Day

Really, isn’t every day supposed to be Earth Day? Many years ago I interned at a campaign finance reform non-profit called Public Campaign and wrote a pamphlet describing the myriad ways special interest groups caused mayhem with our environmental policies. I recall in that research how useless the at-the-time landmark Kyoto Protocols had become in three short years.  18 years later we have what appears to be a more promising Paris Summit agreement, which both the US and China appear to be taking seriously.  I suppose that’ll happen when residents of Beijing are choking on smog on a daily basis. As to whether the United States honors this new agreement depends on who exactly will be in the White House on January 20, 2017.