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Finally, Someone Is Talking About Climate Change At A National Party Convention

Tuesday happened to be the 80th birthday of Smokey Bear, an environmental avatar for most people my age growing up, often the first inkling we’d all have of what we came to call ecology. He made his first appearance on a poster in 1944. At the time, the nation was panicked at the possibility that Japanese submarines might fire-bomb the west coast. (In the spring of 1942, Japanese submarines actually did bombard Santa Barbara.) Created by an artist named Albert Stehle, Smokey soon became the face of fire prevention.

Climate and the environment, invisible at the Republican National Convention last month, hangs heavy over the proceedings here at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The party’s Council on Environment and the Climate Crisis has organized a number of events over the four days, starting on Monday with Al Eastman, an Oglala Sioux climate scientist from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota, who said,

“Just last month, there was something that was a little surprising. There were 27 tornadoes in one evening in the Chicagoland area. I was working that evening and it was a pretty exciting ride home—trees falling down into homes and into the street….my relatives back in South Dakota talk about drought. The bottom line is that we just need to elect people that are willing to stand up and fight the climate crisis, and for the solutions.”

Both Senators Jeff Merkley and Ed Markey are scheduled to speak on the subject on Wednesday. I am nothing short of dumbfounded that half of the American political system chooses to ignore, or downplay entirely, this crisis. Fire doesn’t care about your poll numbers. Drought brings thirst to both your base voters and the undecideds. Only you can prevent catastrophes.

Will they really tell us their plans, though? Do they want the average American to truly know that they want government to control their lives and take their money?

Interestingly, none of the media, including the above article, mention the 50,000 who are supposed to attend the DNC, as well as the at least 50,000 pouring into Chicago to protest. How are they getting there? How many are taking the train and bus, and how many are flying in on fossil fueled planes or taking fossil fueled vehicles? How many of the big wigs are being ferried around in fossil fueled limos and SUVs?