Plays with YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change | Climate Town
2 HN users recommended this commentary in 3 different months between 2021 and 2023.
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1 strong recommendation 2 recommendations 2 citations HackerTube score 3.5
HN recommends it as an entertaining summary of early bipartisan climate action and corporate influence on research.
Climate Town tells the history of the period when the greenhouse effect was not politically controversial and the US came close to acting on climate. It covers Exxon's early climate science and the policy failures that followed.
Pull quote: “Climate Town has a great video essay on it” (HN, 2023)
Also tagged: history of climate policy, climate change, exxon, kyoto protocol, us politics, video essay
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