| This commentary first published in Crain’s Detroit Business, March 16, 2022 |
A day will come when Michigan and the entire United States must make sweeping and dramatic changes to combat global warming. We can say that with certainty because, as a vast body of climate science proves, we have no choice if we want our children and their children to enjoy this beautiful planet as we know it.
The coming cataclysm was portrayed most recently in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, released February 28, 2022. The report is 3,676 pages of science that builds a broad case against a failure of global climate leadership. The top level findings are generally things we have all heard a thousand times—coral reefs dying, forests burning, low ocean shoreline communities moving inland, crop productivity declining, and so much more. (I know, you want to