will Afghanistan crowd out climate issues

[Aseem Prakash]

Hello friends:

Many would think of wildfires, droughts, floods, and now the IPCC report as "focusing events" that would lead to new and vigorous climate policy. Yet, there is a sense of climate lethargy. Issues such as Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan will probably dominate the new cycle in the coming months. How will the US public with its limited attention span make climate policy as its top priority? Here is a commentary we published on Forbes.com:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2021/08/14/wildfires-heatwaves-and-the-ipcc-report-yet-climate-policy-is-losing-steam/?sh=2caca57f34b2

If you cannot access it, please email me and I will send you a PDF.

Best,

Aseem

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Aseem Prakash
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
University of Washington, Seattle
aseemprakash.net