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

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23. Yup, doing "something" that won't make a noticeable difference is worse than nothing.

We'd be better off putting the entire $80 billion or whatever into removing lead paint from low-income housing where it might actually do some good. Why let children be sick today, just so we can feel good about doing "something" about a future we don't have the will to change.

I do tell Republicans they have their heads in the sand. Now I find myself telling Democrats they have theirs eyes glued to the rear view mirror.

I'm not really sanguine about either group looking far enough ahead. Like I said our brains are not designed to work that way. They are designed to do whatever seemed to work yesterday, with a few tweeks at most, but no radical changes to prevent something that may happens years from now. It's a crisis, but we don't know how to react to one measured in decades or centuries.