Biden has weakest climate plan among front runners
Biden’s climate plan appears designed to appeal to Independents who don’t care about climate change
Over the past few weeks, the Democratic candidates have had a CNN town hall on climate, a Democratic debate without climate, many candidates dropping out including Jay Inslee, a heart attack and a substantial surge by Warren that puts Biden’s front runner status at risk. But if he ends up as the candidate, how good is his climate plan?
Biden’s plan is strong on transportation, okay on land use, decent on foreign policy and weak on everything else
It’s clear that Biden’s transportation advisors know what they are talking about: electrification of the roads, biofuels for sea and sky, high-speed rail where it makes sense. His land use advisors are okay but light on actionable pathways to change. He has a couple of things in there which will be easy to message to farmers.
His industry advisors? Not so much. Yes, wonky climate risk in public company disclosures and some state-level manufacturing subsidies. His energy advisors need to be replaced with people who know what they are talking about. He’s basically ignoring the military contribution to…
