You may be thinking “bottom up? So, Warmists will finally start making their own lives carbon neutral voluntarily?”
No
The world has decided bottom-up is the way it’s going to stop climate change
At the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco this week, the crisp Pacific air was filled with promises of less carbon. No one making those promises mentioned national governments. (snip)
With the US government all but out of the game (for now), the action is going local. The world seems to have decided that bottom-up is the way to stop climate change. “It’s remarkable seeing what is actually happening on the ground,†says David Waskow of the World Resources Institute. “It’s a network model for taking climate action.â€
But is it enough? Governor Brown and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg argue it’s close. The two lead America’s Pledge, a local climate action group with more than 3,000 U.S. cities, states, businesses and other groups attempting to deliver on America’s goal of a 26% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2025 under the Paris Agreement. (Despite president Donald Trump’s pledge to withdraw the US from the agreement, he can’t legally do so until November 2020). America’s Pledge now claims it’s within “striking distance†of fulfilling the US climate commitment. The group hopes enough momentum at every level of society may stymie federal efforts to stop progress on slowing climate change.
What they mean by bottom up is cities, counties, and states forcing the citizens and private entities to Do Something, usually in the form of taxes/fees, reduction of liberty, and job killing mandates. All why the governments and the people who push all this stuff refuse to mitigate their own carbon footprints.
