who used climate denial as a bedrock of party orthodoxy.
Soon, few Republicans running for federal office would admit to accepting the reality of manmade climate change. CO2 was approaching 400 ppm.
By 2010, I was in a partnered relationship with a retired aerospace engineer who was as concerned and committed as I was about the fate of the warming world. And we would soon be driving a Chevy Volt, GM’s plug-in electric car, and powering it by solar panels on the roofs of our individual homes, mine in Vegas, his in Denver.
Ironically, the CEO of General Motors had admitted that the biggest mistake he ever made was killing the EV1 and failing to direct more resources to electrics and hybrids after having such an early lead on this technology. Was the Volt my Saturn revamped?!”
We named it Emerson, for the Transcendentalist writer and philosopher, because we saw it as being, like Ralph Waldo, quietly subversive on behalf of the planet. We called its GPS system Naggie Maggie after Margaret Fuller, a persistent stone in Emerson’s shoe.
We were about to become climate activists.
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