Climate Denial Is Tearing Our Nation Apart — We Can’t Wait Much Longer to Act

When disaster strikes, America has an empathy problem

In America, citizens of largely red states are not a monolith. Southern states, in particular, still see the effects of Reconstruction-era voter suppression, making the voting habits of these states more complex than just a number. Still, when climate change…

Climate denial is tearing our nation apart — we can’t wait much longer to act

No nation is healthy when floods are sweeping children away, fires are burning families alive in their homes, and tornadoes are leveling entire towns as its people do nothing of consequence to keep those tragedies from becoming normal.

Williams: From Texas to Virginia, we're drowning in climate denialism

Now hardly seems to be the time to cut staff at the National Weather Service or the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). But our government seems to be prioritizing the mindless deportation of an essential immigrant labor pool over health, safety and welfare.