Hello friends: Many would think of wildfires, droughts, floods, and now the IPCC report as "focusing events" that would lead to new and vigorous climate policy. Yet, there is a sense of climate lethargy. Issues such as Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan will probably dominate the new cycle in the coming months. How will the US public with its limited attention span make climate policy as its top priority? Here is a commentary we published on Forbes.com:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2021/08/14/wildfires-heatwaves-and-the-ipcc-report-yet-climate-policy-is-losing-steam/?sh=2caca57f34b2 If you cannot access it, please email me and I will send you a PDF. Best, Aseem ________________________________________________ Aseem Prakash<https://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/> Professor, Department of Political Science Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics<http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/> University of Washington, Seattle aseemprakash.net<http://aseemprakash.net> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/MWHPR08MB2798D5D8393DC6BA6E30E68BDDFD9%40MWHPR08MB2798.namprd08.prod.outlook.com.