“The first suggestion to Rafe Pomerance that humankind was destroying the conditions necessary for its own survival came on page 66 of the government publication of EPA-600/7-78-019.” This is a history, mostly US based, of the policy debates around any kind of action in reaction to climate change from about 1979-1999. While it touches on events after 2000, and lives in 2019, it focuses mostly on the early stages developed under Carter, then Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, with the figures that were primarily involved during […]