Atlantic senior editor reports Mother Nature is 'registering a dissenting opinion' on SCOTUS' EPA decision

Doug P. | 3:54 PM on July 16, 2022

It’s only been a couple of weeks since the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling, and apparently it’s already starting to destroy life as we know it. That’s according to CNN contributor and Atlantic senior editor Ron Brownstein:

Spreading Europe heatwave & wildfires reinforce similar events in Western US: As I wrote this week, Mother Nature is registering a dissenting opinion on blockade against climate action from GOP #SCOTUS Justices, red states & Manchin/Senate GOP alliance. https://t.co/MV23fACNIm

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 16, 2022

And of course this new thing called summer isn’t only the fault of Supreme Court conservatives, but also Republicans and Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, who selfishly doesn’t want to plunge the nation into another Great Depression by printing trillions more dollars:

Mother Nature is entering a dissenting opinion on last month’s Supreme Court decision that weakened the federal government’s ability to combat climate change.

With record heat in Texas that is testing the state’s power grid, a California wildfire that has threatened an ancient grove of sequoias considered a foundation stone of the national-park system, and persistent drought across the West that is forcing unprecedented cutbacks in water deliveries from the Colorado River, the summer of 2022 already is shaping up as another season of extreme and dangerous environmental conditions.

The paradox is that precisely as these events are dramatizing the rising costs of inaction on climate change, Washington faces more difficulty to act. That’s not only because of the Supreme Court but also because of the resistance to sweeping legislation in the Senate from every Republican as well as Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who represents one of the top coal-producing states, West Virginia.