By Kara Baskin
Michael R. Bloomberg, billionaire entrepreneur and former three-term mayor of New York City, launched what he called “the largest coordinated assault on the climate crisis that our country has ever undertaken, ” with a plan to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States by 2030.
Bloomberg laid out the ambitious plan, Beyond Carbon, as part of his commencement address at MIT on Friday, June 7, telling graduates, “Your generation’s mission is not to explore deep space and to reach faraway places. It’s to save our own planet, the one we live on, from climate change.” His foundation will donate $500 million to the initiative....
I agree with him. I have probably worn out the name Dr. Chris Fields (click here) on this blog, but, he is a brilliant man and if not for him, the USA would not have a climate curriculum for it's young people. He knows what he is doing.
There is absolutely no doubt Michael Bloomberg loves the USA beyond any imagination otherwise. I am impressed at his words and his financial backing to end the threats to Earth's climate. It is a magnificent gesture and I dearly want him to succeed as much as I know he wants to succeed.
We need Climate Policy, Mayor Bloomberg. We need strong laws that end the danger to the future of all Americans. We were on our way with President Obama and he made a good dent in the problem, but, all the back peddling for the sake of an economy is not the future, it is simply breathing air into the past where all the danger lies.
Literally, the Trump economy is revitalizing the very reasons the Climate Crisis exists in the first place. The Trump economy should never exist in the year 2019. It is based in deregulation of danger and revitalizing dangerous forms of energy. Even the trucking industry has no use for his deregulation. The trucking industry was well on it's way to harnessing greener and cleaner forms of fuel and the federal government was holding the industry's hand throughout the transition. Now, all that change is supposed to dissolve so old trucks still have a place on the American highway when they shouldn't.
I hope all goes well for the Former Mayor of New York City. He is a good and decent man, but, please work with highly qualified scientists, including others in the USA that understand the stresses the planet is under like Dr. Carmelo Tomas of UNCW (click here). He is a world class scientist that knows the conditions of the oceans at the micro level. These scientists love this world and they want it to be a benevolent place where people love to live.
I wish Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg all the success he deserves and wants.
