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"If you pledge sobriety and then buy a keg of beer, people are going to wonder."
– Bill McKibben
On Tuesday night the world's two biggest polluters – the US and China – announced a surprisingly ambitious climate deal. We should take a moment to celebrate this interim victory while realizing that it does not go nearly far enough in addressing climate change. Now it is our collective, global responsibility to ensure that both countries are serious about such a deal.
An important first step would be for the US and China to cancel their destructive projects that are destroying the planet. To prove that he is serious, President Obama should reject the Keystone XL Pipeline and use his bully pulpit to push for a carbon tax. While unlikely with the current congress, a carbon tax could become a major campaign issue in 2016. And WE can protest our taxes going to subsidize climate catastrophe by divesting from the fossil fuel industry.
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