At Ensia, Geoff Dembicki (who has done extensive reporting on the financial impacts of climate change) goes there in Can We Prepare For Climate Impacts Without Creating Financial Chaos?
There is a perverse and hidden danger from climate change that few people, even those who unquestionably accept the science, know how to deal with. Someday, likely sooner than we think, the destruction that warmer global temperatures are inflicting — through record floods, wildfires, droughts and hurricanes — could physically overwhelm our ability to maintain many communities in their existing form.
But by talking openly about this, and taking the necessary steps to address it, communities open the door to another danger. If markets suddenly value the risk of climate change properly, it could lead to a mass withdrawal of investment that kills real estate values, dries up tax revenue and leads to a wider financial crisis.
That is the reality confronting Ted Becker, the mayor of Lewes, Delaware, a town of about 3,000 people in which some buildings sit just steps from the Atlantic oceanfront. . . .
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It's not often that a candidate really impresses me, but I got an email from the Buttigieg campaign yesterday regarding Alabama's abortion ban and . . . surprise . . . he didn't ask for donations to his campaign but instead linked to NARAL's website and action page.
Then a few hours later, I got similar emails from both O'Rourke and Harris. Glad to see our candidates speaking out and helping out.
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Why America's strict new anti-abortion laws could backfire by Joel Mathis at The Week.
The anti-abortion laws passed in recent days by legislatures in Alabama and Georgia seem designed for one purpose: to get the Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 1973 Roe v. Waderuling that guaranteed a woman's right to an abortion. The Court — more solidly conservative now than ever thanks to the recent addition of Justice Brett Kavanaugh — may well uphold those new laws.
Will voters do the same?
Maybe not. There is plenty of evidence that citizens of conservative states are, to some extent, actually protective of abortion rights. It may not be something they proclaim in their offices, at church, or to pollsters — but their secret beliefs can become quite evident once they enter the voting booth. This should make the legislators who passed the new bills very nervous.
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