As well-intentioned Kerry may be, climate change is not particularly high up in polls on the biggest issues of the day
John Kerry — his career downgraded from a former secretary of state who negotiated the Iran nuclear deal to a member of the nomenklatura in charge of winning the climate war — flew to Iceland, adding 60 metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere, to collect an award. For what? For his efforts to combat climate change. If it weren’t so sad, it would be laughable.
But you can laugh anyhow. All that’s left of Kerry’s Iran deal is a broken leg and a whole new set of pen pals to keep him company through the long Boston winters. And all that’s left of his climate trip is some volcanic rock jewelry for Teresa and more hypocrisy than the carbon that blew through the plane’s exhaust.
And all that carbon, of course. If you believe in the stuff. Do I? Good question. I’m not a scientist, and I understand that there’s a big machlokes whether human activity contributes to climate change, or even whether the climate is a-changin’. But I do know that there’s this huge pandemic going on, with thousands of Americans dying every day and millions of people poorer now than they were a year ago.
As well-intentioned Kerry may be — and I don’t think he’s ever been right in the entirety of his calling, from tossing his military medals during Vietnam War protests in the 1970s, to deciding that accepting a climate award was in any way important in the 2020s — climate change is not particularly high up in polls on the biggest issues of the day. Gallup, as of January, has two percent of Americans worried more about the climate than anything else.
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