{"id":45623,"date":"2019-04-24T11:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45623"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:06:45","slug":"the-us-chamber-of-commerces-new-take-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45623","title":{"rendered":"The US Chamber of Commerce\u2019s \u201cNew\u201d Take on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US Chamber of Commerce\u2019s \u201cNew\u201d Take on Climate Change<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The climate is changing, and humans are contributing to these changes. We believe that there is much common ground on which all sides of this discussion could come together to address climate change with policies that are practical, flexible, predictable, and durable.<\/em>
                                                                                      \u2014 The US Chamber of Commerce<\/em>

The US Chamber of Commerce, through its Global Energy Institute<\/a> (GEI), recently announced the launch of a major new climate initiative called the American Energy: Cleaner, Stronger<\/em>campaign. It\u2019s admitted purpose is to<\/strong> \u201ccounter the Green New Deal<\/strong> (GND) with an energy innovation agenda\u2026to persuade the public and Congress<\/strong>that technology is better than regulation<\/strong> in addressing climate change.\u201d (emphasis added).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In taking a swipe at the GND, the Chamber has handed its progressive Democratic authors and supporters a key victory\u2014certainly something it had not intended to do.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever the Green New Deal is or isn\u2019t, the idea of it has accomplished what was thought Impossible just months ago–the admission by traditionally conservative deniers that climate change is real and needs to be acted upon<\/strong> now.<\/strong><\/em> The Chamber\u2019s announcement boldly states inaction is not an option.<\/em><\/strong> The actions to be taken, however, remain matters of dogmatic ideological debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On its face, the Chamber\u2019s call to action is a far cry from its 2017 policy priorities<\/a>. Today climate change is on the minds of voters because it is on the lips of every Democrat in Congress, as well as those vying for the party\u2019s presidential nomination. The Chamber\u2019s newly announced campaign is an effort to remain relevant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not every Democrat has embraced the GND. All, however, have acknowledged that climate policy is one of the Party\u2019s top three priorities going into the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The US Chamber of Commerce\u2019s \u201cNew\u201d Take on Climate Change The climate is changing, and humans are contributing to these changes. We believe that there is much common ground on which all sides of this discussion could come together to address climate change with policies that are practical, flexible, predictable, and durable.                                                                                      \u2014 The US Chamber […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20412,141,25702,23450,25703,14863],"class_list":["post-45623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-civil-notion","tag-climate-change","tag-global-energy-institute","tag-green-new-deal","tag-joel-b-stronberg","tag-us-chamber-of-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45624,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45623\/revisions\/45624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}