Fighting Climate Change in a Red State

ATLANTA — “The South” describes a vast, diverse group of people, right wing government that recently attempted to pass an anti-LGBT “religious freedom” bill, its Paris Accord exit-supporting senators and Bible Belt location make its largest city, Atlanta, feel like a progressive island in a sea red with conservative ideals. One could rent a bike at the warehouse-converted food hall at Ponce City Market and pedal via tree-lined walkways to a high-tech park meant to turn into a pond from a deluge of storm runoff. This blue city wants to save its red state from the costly effects of a changing climate. There’s a long and bumpy road ahead. An obvious paradox plagues those hoping to fight the effects of climate change and build more sustainable cities here in the United States. Progressive Northeastern and Western states seem to be those at least risk for suffering the economic hardships of climate change like damages to the agricultural or energy industries, powerful storms, and human mortality according to one high-profile study published in Science. That same study expects the worst effects in the Southern United States, places with lawmakers who deny humans’ influence on the changing climate and are uninterested in supporting… Read full this story

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