Trump’s omnibus legislation, dubbed “the most anti-environmental bill in history” by the Sierra Club, dismantled a host of clean energy incentives created by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act while introducing new spurs to fossil fuel production. The bill’s passage all but ensures the absence of the U.S. federal government from the fight against climate change for the foreseeable future — while extreme weather events continue to proliferate all around us, with deadly consequences. On this front, as on so many others, these are dispiriting times.
The renowned philosopher and climate justice scholar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò isn’t ready to throw in the towel. “I don’t know why people are so bent out of shape about hope,” Táíwò told us recently. “Hope is great.” Our conversation touched on Táíwò’s vision for the internationalist collaboration on climate that may be able to fill the vacuum of American global leadership, the developments that brought us to our present moment of crisis, and how those of us stuck in the United States can respond effectively. Read the full interview online today.
“Politics is Conflictual” | Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
The space opening up for something new is also the space opening up for something worse. The question will be: which version of a new order — or new orders, plural — will win resources and people most quickly and most effectively?
