Mar 3, 2021
If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right, we are a decade from the end of the world. But it’s hard to take seriously the doomsday claim from the congresswoman from New York, not only in light of some of her past pronouncements, but because history is definitely not on her side.
The topic is climate change, and there’s certainly plenty of evidence that it exists, and that man contributes to it. But the answer is not the toothless Paris Accord that President Joe Biden was only too happy to jump back into — the U.S. is already rare among world leaders trying to do anything about climate change, and most of the proposals of the past 30 years have been designed to bankrupt us while allowing other major nations to continue unchecked.