Obama Had a Green New Deal, and It Worked. Let's Do That Again.

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16. Okay

I have no idea what you are referring to here - Obama's actual meaningful accomplishments toward reversing climate change were neither because the problem wasn't solved within his administration?

Because they didn't even begin to "reverse" anything, and really the problem has gotten worse in the meantime. They didn't even "slow it down". They just "reduced the acceleration". At the time one MIGHT have been able to make the argument that if the slowing down was sustained long enough, at some time in the future, we could achieve reversal before time ran out. Whether that was true then is highly arguable. Now, we don't have that kind of time. Time IS running out, if it hasn't already.

Are you saying that Obama's legislative and diplomatic progress on climate change "interfered" with something that would have done the job already?

I'm saying that at this point in time, doing something whose time has passed, will interfere with moving towards actual solutions. Being nostalgic for the "good ole days", isn't going to solve this problem. We've wasted DECADES avoiding solutions to the problem. That has reduce the body of potential solutions to a very small set of actions that can and need to be taken.