“In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.”
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With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
