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24 May 2021
White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy said it would be “ridiculous” to ask Americans to “sacrifice” for the climate right now, given the uphill battle many face due to the ramifications of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which battered the economy, leaving many jobless.
Speaking on
Axios on HBO, McCarthy, who led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under former President Barack Obama, admitted it is not a good idea, at least right now, to ask Americans to make sacrifices for the climate.
“Isn’t the climate emergency immense enough that people should feel pain whereas you’re sort of saying, here’s money, here’s jobs, and we’ll save the planet too?” Axios’s Mike Allen asked.
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US climate envoy John Kerry used a visit to Europe to reassure people they would not have to eat less meat or lower their quality of life to reduce carbon emissions.
While in Italy, he attended an audience with Pope Francis and revealed the pontiff was planning to attend the talks.
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Before moving on to Britain, Mr Kerry raised eyebrows by suggesting half of the necessary emissions cuts would be achieved by futuristic technology that does not yet exist.
“Look at what we did to push the creation of vaccines, look at what we did to go to the moon, look at what we did to invent the internet,” Mr Kerry told BBC s
Town Square: Rep. Carter requests earmark funding for First District projects Adam Van Brimmer, Savannah Morning News
Opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching Savannah s Town Square.
Rep. Buddy Carter hasn t totally abandoned working for his constituents in favor of campaigning for U.S. Senate as a Trumpublican.
Carter recently filed for earmark funding for three district-specific projects, highlighted by a $5 million request for the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.
Opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching Savannah s Town Square.
Rep. Buddy Carter hasn t totally abandoned working for his constituents in favor of campaigning for U.S. Senate as a Trumpublican.
Carter recently filed for earmark funding for three district-specific projects, highlighted by a $5 million request for the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.
Carter is the rare Georgia Republican to participate in the renewal of the earmark process. Six of the state s eight GOP reps, many of them outspoken Trump supporters, refused to submit requests and have labeled earmarks as pork-barrel spending.