12 Jul '19 19:31>
@metal-brain saidObama's plan speaks for itself. It was effective in some areas. No mention of a carbon tax, which is weird because you kept calling it the top priority. It seems like it's conservatives telling their voters it's the Democrats top priority just to get their base riled up, but instead more realistic solutions were put in place. Obviously when you talk about climate it must be longer than a presidential term, and you would not expect a new administration to stop listening to all scientific advisors regarding climate change and pollution.
Two thirds of the presidential democrat candidates are open to carbon taxes. That is accurate.
Obama's plan is vague and probably mostly ineffective. It was a long term plan for automobile efficiency far past his two term limit which makes little sense. Those targets were probably what the automobile manufactures were okay with in the first place and were the result of ...[text shortened]... ore any plan was implemented. There was already a trend of reduction before he even got into office.
Our current leadership thinks that wind power causes cancer. The result: pollution is up 14%.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/trumps-us-doesnt-have-cleanest-air-record/593500/