Storms and fires will not bring an escape from America’s stuck climate politics
But look hard enough and an exit is visible
READING HIS local newspaper last month, Bruce, a 70-year-old retired executive, could take it no longer. “Almost every article” on Nola.com—website of the Times-Picayune, New Orleans’s paper of record since 1837—had “an element of Wokeism”, he wrote in an email cancelling his subscription. Among those elements, he objected especially to references to climate change, an issue that he considered “had not been empirically established”.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Through a glass darkly”
United States September 4th 2021
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