Climate change, and the natural disasters that are increasing in frequency and intensity due to it, are biggest and most frightening challenges facing our modern society. It is also undeniable that the government has taken very few steps in fighting climate change. The conservative Bush administration particularly saw policies that ignored Global Warming and it’s disastrous effects. Namely, Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed Louisiana, a state that is still in recovery. Certainly natural disasters cannot be blamed on the administration- they are called natural disasters for a reason- but the administration must be blamed for it’s failure to even acknowledge the climate crisis and it’s causes. Without this recognition, we cannot begin to take steps towards a solution.

And what solutions is that anyway? We don’t have one. The public is clear in it’s demand for government action on climate change, but the government has yet to set forth a viable and effective solution, and with our current congressional gridlock- it may still be a while.