{"id":159,"date":"2020-11-14T14:58:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2020-11-14T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:58:45","slug":"u-s-presidential-politics-and-planetary-crisis-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/u-s-presidential-politics-and-planetary-crisis-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. presidential politics and planetary crisis in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"453\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Reed_Kurtz_-_KURTZ_Reed_-_headshot_IMG_2211.png?resize=453%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Reed_Kurtz_-_KURTZ_Reed_-_headshot_IMG_2211.png?w=453&amp;ssl=1 453w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Reed_Kurtz_-_KURTZ_Reed_-_headshot_IMG_2211.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Reed_Kurtz_-_KURTZ_Reed_-_headshot_IMG_2211.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Reed_Kurtz_-_KURTZ_Reed_-_headshot_IMG_2211.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"US201bio\"><strong>Dr Reed Kurtz<\/strong><br><br>PhD in Political Science and Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. Research and teaching interests include the politics of climate change, state and civil society relations in world politics, and critical theories of capitalism and the Anthropocene.<br><br><em>Email: kurtz.305@osu.edu<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_1_policy.png?resize=400%2C308&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_1_policy.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/US20_divider_1_policy.png?resize=300%2C231&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"US201\"> Section 1: Policy and political context<\/h5>\n<div class=\"page-list\"><ul class=\"list-group-item\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-115\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/the-far-too-normal-election\/\">The far-too-normal election<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-121\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/one-pandemic-two-americas-and-a-week-long-election-day\/\">One pandemic, two Americas and a week-long election day<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-125\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/political-emotion-and-the-global-pandemic-factors-at-odds-with-a-trump-presidency\/\">Political emotion and the global pandemic: factors at odds with a Trump presidency<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-129\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/the-pandemic-did-not-produce-the-predominant-headwinds-that-changed-the-course-of-the-country\/\">The pandemic did not produce the predominant headwinds that changed the course of the country<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-134\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/confessions-of-a-vampire\/\">Confessions of a vampire<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-137\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/covid-19-and-the-2020-election\/\">COVID-19 and the 2020 election<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-141\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/president-trump-promised-a-covid-vaccine-by-election-day-that-politicized-vaccination-intentions\/\">President Trump promised a COVID vaccine by Election Day: that politicized vaccination intentions<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-145\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/the-enduring-impact-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement-on-the-2020-elections\/\">The enduring impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on the 2020 elections<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-149\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/where-do-we-go-from-here-the-2020-u-s-presidential-election-immigration-and-crisis\/\">Where do we go from here? The 2020 U.S. presidential election, immigration, and crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-152\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/a-nation-divided-on-abortion\/\">A nation divided on abortion?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-156\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/ending-the-policy-of-erasure-transgender-issues-in-2020\/\">Ending the policy of erasure: transgender issues in 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-162\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/joe-biden-and-americas-role-in-the-world\/\">Joe Biden and America\u2019s role in the world<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-165\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/president-bidens-foreign-policy-engagement-multilateralism-and-cautious-globalization\/\">President Biden\u2019s foreign policy: engagement, multilateralism, and cautious globalization<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-168\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/presidential-primary-outcomes-as-evidence-of-levels-of-party-unity\/\">Presidential primary outcomes as evidence of levels of party unity<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-171\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/a-movable-force-the-armed-forces-voting-bloc\/\">A movable force: the armed forces voting bloc<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-179\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/guns-and-the-2020-elections\/\">Guns and the 2020 elections<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-182\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2020\/section-1-policy-and-political-context\/can-bidens-win-stop-the-decline-of-the-west-and-restore-the-role-of-the-united-states-in-the-world\/\">Can Biden\u2019s win stop the decline of the West and restore the role of the United States in the world?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<p>First, context.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/state-of-the-climate-2020-on-course-to-be-warmest-year-on-record\">2020 will set temperature records<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/2019-was-second-hottest-year-record-what-now-180973995\/\">again<\/a>), as scientists give&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/2018\/10\/08\/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments\/\">2030 as the deadline to cut greenhouse emissions by ~50% to avoid \u2018dangerous\u2019 global warming<\/a>. Wildfires ravaged&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-53549936\">Australia<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/oct\/01\/brazil-amazon-rainforest-worst-fires-in-decade\">Amazonia<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/event\/146855\/2020-fire-season-in-the-western-us\">Western North America<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/hurricane-names-go-greek.html\">Hurricane season exhausted the Roman alphabet for names<\/a>. And there is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\">global pandemic<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa815\/5860249\">COVID-19\u2019s impacts on poor, Black, and other marginalized communities<\/a>&nbsp;demonstrate the ecological crisis is not just \u2018environmental\u2019 but \u2018social.\u2019 The Trump effect is not to create something new, but to expose, and exacerbate, existing conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is remarkable the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-18922-7\">greatest emissions reductions in three decades of international climate policy<\/a>&nbsp;come as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2020\/06\/08\/covid-19-to-plunge-global-economy-into-worst-recession-since-world-war-ii\">global system experiences its greatest crisis in decades<\/a>. Also remarkable is how the pandemic created breathing room for the Paris climate regime,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/cop-25-un-climate-change-conference\">at its most critical point<\/a>&nbsp;since inception. 2019 saw negotiators&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/dec\/14\/un-climate-talks-drag-on-as-rifts-scupper-hopes-of-breakthrough\">punting again on commitments<\/a>&nbsp;to reduce emissions (climate mitigation) and ensure compensation (climate finance) for climate adaptation and development. Ironically COVID-19 has helped keep negotiations on life support, with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/cop26-postponed\">annual conference postponed to 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recall 2009, after Obama\u2019s election. Optimism carried to climate negotiations in Copenhagen, where many hoped for more progressive U.S. leadership in the renegotiations of the Kyoto accords, which faltered due to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Byrd%E2%80%93Hagel_Resolution\">U.S. ambivalence and antipathy<\/a>&nbsp;under Clinton and Bush. Instead, Obama&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2009\/dec\/18\/copenhagen-deal\">submarined negotiations<\/a>&nbsp;by subverting protocols, arranging backdoor deals to avoid binding commitments for wealthy polluters, thereby alienating and antagonizing developing countries, who scuttled the talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is thus more than a symbolic connection between this election, delivering Joe Biden, defender of Obama\u2019s legacy, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-54797743\">formal withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on November 4<\/a>, four years after Trump\u2019s victory and ratification of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\">non-binding Paris Agreement<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/perspectives-on-politics\/article\/paris-agreement-on-climate-changemade-in-usa\/4687F2B504D5984BA7F5299CA3878DBF\">modeled after Obama\u2019s initial Copenhagen design<\/a>. One major difference between 2020 and 2008? There can be no such unrestrained optimism this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must resist illusions Biden will willingly advocate climate issues,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/biden-tells-des-moines-activist-vote-for-someone-else\/30705659\">as made clear during the primaries<\/a>. His path to nomination was rightward of all serious contenders, particularly on climate and energy. Biden consistently rejected a Green New Deal (GND), offering tepid support for his own watered-down policy. And despite unscripted remarks against oil (quickly backtracked), Biden has long&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-10-12\/why-big-oil-should-vote-for-joe-biden\">aligned interests with fossil capital<\/a>, deeply embedded in his home state of Pennsylvania which delivered the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this was clear before. Now, two more points are salient. First, Democrats are (still) failing to articulate a cohesive and effective message around the GND. Beyond fissures between neoliberal, \u2018third way\u2019 establishment Democrats and their social democratic challengers, lies a core contradiction of modern progressivism: that carbon energy has fueled the greatest expansion and accumulation of capital the world has ever seen, thereby producing the greatest crisis the planet has ever known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another issue lies in exit polling on the pandemic. With 230,000+ deaths and 100,000+ new infections\/day,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/election-us-2020-54783016\">it is alarming that 31% of respondents said the U.S. response has been \u201csomewhat\u201d and 17% \u201cvery well.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;How should we expect this 48% of the electorate to respond to a climate crisis that requires a complete overhaul of society?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though much rides on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/11\/07\/932068951\/senate-control-likely-decided-by-fate-of-2-georgia-runoff-races\">remaining Senate races<\/a>, at best is a slim Democratic majority and a Democratic house majority slimmer than 2018. Biden\u2019s main priority must be undoing the past four years of damage.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatepresident.org\/Legal-Authority-for-Presidential-Climate-Action.pdf\">While environmentalists advocate a swath of feasible reforms<\/a>, very little can be expected from Congress.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/05112020\/election-2020-biden-mcconnell-senate-climate-change-policy?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&amp;utm_campaign=1065a23621-&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-1065a23621-327811481\">Even if (and when) bipartisan climate\/energy\/economy policy comes<\/a>, expecting \u201cGreen\u201d legislation in four years would undermine&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-resolution\/109\/text?format=txt&amp;q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22green+new+deal%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1&amp;s=1\">the original\u2019s ambitions<\/a>, hence calls for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunrisemovement.org\/green-new-deal\/?ms=WhatistheGreenNewDeal%3F\">GND \u201cdecade.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;The judiciary also dashes hopes of change through the courts. While youth climate cases may inspire new discourses and actions regarding climate harms,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/2020\/10\/21\/textualist-environmentalism\/\">U.S. environmentalists cannot expect textualists to recognize these claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within institutional politics, ecological justice advocates should stake as much possible on matters resonating with Americans now: economic inequality, racial injustice, universal healthcare and education. Strong priorities must be given to human rights, civil liberties and responsibilities, and dismantling the carceral state, especially as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11625-017-0519-0\">struggles for ecological justice<\/a>&nbsp;shift to the streets and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ende-gelaende.org\/en\/\">sites of extraction<\/a>. For sources of hope and visions for the future, we should look to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/voters-of-color-are-helping-flip-gop-strongholds-we-kn-1845594185\">grassroots organizing<\/a>&nbsp;of frontline communities and working-class people, especially of color, who delivered an end to the Trump regime, if not his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/nov\/05\/biden-democrats-democratic-trump\">legacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever prospects for GND, a decade is too long to merely \u2018reform\u2019 the capitalist system. Even if we cut emissions by half by 2030, the struggle for a \u2018just\u2019 climate future will be difficult. Vision lies with movements demanding social and environmental justice, via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/350seattle.org\/why-direct-action\/\">nonviolent<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/44150995\/Direct_Action_and_the_Climate_Crisis_Interventions_to_Resist_and_Reorganize_the_Metabolic_Relations_of_Capitalism\">direct actions<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climatejusticealliance.org\/just-transition\/\">just transition<\/a>&nbsp;to a sustainable alternative (e.g.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fridaysforfuture.org\/\">climate strikes<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gastivists.org\/\">anti-fossil campaigns<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/viacampesina.org\/en\/\">food sovereignty<\/a>). One recent source of hope comes from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/10\/12\/chile-at-the-barricades\">Chile<\/a>, where protests demanding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5709354\/chile-protests-ian-bremmer-unequal\/\">socio-economic rights<\/a>&nbsp;and an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5709354\/chile-protests-ian-bremmer-unequal\/\">end to neoliberalism<\/a>&nbsp;paralyzed the country, causing the government to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-50233678\">cancel the COP25 climate negotiations<\/a>&nbsp;(later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/information-update-on-chile-cop25-to-be-held-in-madrid-on-2-13-december-2019\">moved to Madrid<\/a>). Just last month,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/26\/chile-vote-scrap-pinochet-constitution\">Chileans voted 4-1 to rewrite their constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With much still to be determined, Chile may suggest how institutional change can come from below. But the scope of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/demandclimatejustice.org\/\">climate justice<\/a>&nbsp;must go beyond what we should expect a Biden Administration, GND or no, to achieve within four years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Reed Kurtz PhD in Political Science and Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. Research and teaching interests include the politics of climate change, state and civil society relations in world politics, and critical theories of capitalism and the Anthropocene. 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