Tag Archives: Reagan

We saved the ozone layer. We can save the climate.

From Daniel Doniger at the NRDC last week, a reminder on the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol, that Republicans and Democrats in this country, including the Reagan and Bush administration, allied to support an international treaty to save the ozone layer.  Millions of lives saved.  Hundreds of millions of cancers averted. Continue reading “We saved the ozone layer. We can save the climate.”

Lefty vs. Lefty: Was Economic Crash Reagan’s Fault?

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman said yes it was, in a column called Reagan Did It: For the more one looks into the origins of the current disaster, the clearer it becomes that the key wrong turn — the turn that made crisis inevitable — took place in the early 1980s, during the ReaganContinue reading “Lefty vs. Lefty: Was Economic Crash Reagan’s Fault?”