{"id":668,"date":"2008-10-16T14:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/10\/16\/economic_meltdown\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:02:17","slug":"economic_meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/10\/16\/economic_meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Legislation Buried by Economic Meltdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SherylThere’s been a lot of buzz lately about the financial meltdown making lawmakers think that climate change legislation is less urgent<\/a>. But while we worry about the financial markets, global warming marches relentlessly on. The science knows nothing of credit markets and there will be no pause in the march towards catastrophe<\/a> while we work that out.<\/p>\n

In fact, climate change legislation could well solve both problems<\/a>. David Roberts talked about this at length in a post this week on Gristmill<\/a>. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

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Greens and economists need to be making the point that these green investments are not something we need to do in spite of economic woes, or in conjunction with measures to turn the economy around. They are the measures to turn the economy around. Kudos to Cathy Zoi of We for making the case<\/a>, but she could use some backup.<\/p>\n

There won’t be much time to do something serious on climate. The news from scientists looks worse and worse every day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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