The people who could do something about climate change gave up decades ago

On April 23, the day after Earth Day, a big tent coalition – climate activists, union workers, civil rights leaders, and increasingly desperate young people – will be gathering outside the White House. If you live on the eastern seaboard and are free that Saturday, you should sign up and join them.

  Guardian

Of course, you don't have to live on the eastern seaboard.

[T]he most important climate legislation in US history – and thus, arguably, in world history – is still stuck in congressional purgatory.

Wealthy people aren't concerned about climate disasters. They're concerned about their wealth. And the rest are concerned about more brown people getting into the country and women having the right to choose abortion.

Connecting any of this to, for example, insurance premiums in Miami Beach, or the fate of the world’s remaining sea turtles, or the prospect of your own grandchildren spending the bulk of their crypto-wages on potable drinking water, requires an almost mimetic leap of imagination.

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Joe Biden has mostly stopped talking about it. The enormous moral stakes have been brutally ablated by a broken, farcical and, above all, extremely boring legislative kludge known as budget reconciliation.

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Passage of the bill’s half-trillion-dollars-worth of clean energy investments would probably spell the difference between the world’s largest economy meeting its climate goals and blowing right past them. [...] The potential impact rivals that of nuclear war, except in this case the default is catastrophe. The fossil fuel industry has already fired its ICBM at the heart of our coastal cities.

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Joe Manchin, of his own volition, has returned to the bargaining table with a proposal that could retain most of the original climate investments from Build Back Better and potentially leave room for some investment in low-emission home and healthcare work. Biden and Schumer must stop at nothing to hold him to his word and land the deal.

And they better do it before Republicans retake Congress in the fall. And they better figure out a way to ensure that doesn't happen. They seem to be failing.  Are they even trying?

[N]ot a single one of the Republican cowards who claim concern over climate change – Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham – is even considering voting for the bill. [I]ts fate will be determined by a man who makes money hand over fist pumping carbon into the atmosphere.

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Democrats still have a chance to make good on their slogan and deliver on climate. If they fail, we’ll lose far, far more than the midterms.

[T]here is no "free market" incentive to prevent disaster. An economic environment where a company is only considered viable if it's constantly expanding and increasing its production can't be expected to pump its own brakes over something as trivial as pending global catastrophe. Instead, market logic dictates that rather than take the financial hit that comes with cutting profits, it's more reasonable to find a way to make money off the boiling ocean. Nothing illustrates this phenomenon better than the burgeoning climate-change investment industry. According to Bloomberg, investors are looking to make money off of everything from revamped food production to hotels for people fleeing increasingly hurricane-ravaged areas.

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[T]he fossil-fuel industry's interests are too well-insulated by the mountains of cash that have been converted into lobbyists, industry-shilling Republicans and Democrats, and misinformation. To them, the rest of the world is just kindling.

  GQ

And here's a post I made in 2012:

There are two reasons why people other than slack-jawed creationists deny the global warming phenomenon: 1) it allows them to continue polluting, and 2) if it continues, it will allow them to drill in more places and cut shipping costs.

So, hey, UP WITH WARMING!

A warmer and shorter ice season will make it easier to search for oil and gas and other resources in once inaccessible areas.

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And [...] a shorter ice season holds the promise of a faster, cheaper way of shipping goods through the Arctic .

  Edmonton Journal

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.