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"We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe... The greater the change to the chemical composition of the physical, chemical makeup of the oceans and atmosphere [due to increased carbon emissions], the greater the long-term effect will be... [W]hy would you run this crazy experiment to see how bad it'll be? We know it's at least some bad, and the overwhelming scientific consensus is that it'll be 'really bad'." -- Elon Musk

"We are beginning to realize the extent of an existential experiment humanity is conducting in the atmosphere of the planet, the "Thin Blue Layer". The Anthropocene era is a gathering storm that is changing 'nature' as nature used to be... Our challenge is to use our native intelligence to protect the life-enabling atmosphere, to make decisions that sustain and benefit life today and for future generations." -- Steven Schmidt

Green Quotes

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Quotes

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Response from the GreenPolicy360:

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: To answer the 'Biggest Experiment' question, 'Where were the activists in all of this?', we were there out in front. We, environmental activists, were working with serious intent and all due diligence to gather the facts and make the global warming case that had to be made. Atmospheric and earth science and then activism, with facts and data, came to the forefront.

In the 1970s and 80s, and through the 1990s, a key point person in the U.S. Congress was George E. Brown of the House of Representatives Science Committee. George Brown was a leader of the National Academy of Sciences scientific work studying climate. George prepared and authored the legislation that put the scientists studies into action. As a longtime friend, I watched him and assisted him as I could over the years, over decades in his role in the U.S. House of Representatives as a member, then chair of the House Science Committee. George E. Brown was a visionary and led an intensely dedicated and activist effort on the environmental, earth science, and climate front.

His work included authoring the first National Climate Act in 1978. Look closely...

At the Beginning of U.S. Science on Global Warming, Strategies & Planning

Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360

National Climate Program Act, 1978 / PDF

The first federal program is established to initiate and coordinate federal studies; scientifically assess issues and risks of human-caused climate change, propose action and responses.

1978, the First Climate Act

Congressman Brown, the drafting and passage in 1977 of the First U.S. Federal Climate Report

National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367

National Climate Program Act of September 1978

In 1979 came a first follow-on National Science Academy report that was prescient, and accurate, in its global warming predictions.

George Brown and your GreenPolicy360 siterunner first began our friendship in 1965 as the new Congressman joined the Committee on Science & Technology, a role he would have over the next 35 plus years. George's deep green environmental work on the front lines of science inspired your GreenPolicy siterunner. The range and depth, and success, of the environmental programs the Congressman envisioned, initiated, and oversaw was astounding to my young mind.

Begin with his National Climate Act, then go on to see how an array of science was put in place for decades of ongoing programs and action.

Via Wikipedia / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brown_Jr.

Brown was known as a champion for science. He left behind a deep and expansive legacy that has shaped science and science policy in America. Among some of his many accomplishments during his service on the House Science Committee:

• Established the first federal climate change research program in the Federal Climate Program Act of 1978

• Established the Office of Science and Technology Policy

• Established the Environmental Protection Agency

• Established the Office of Technology Assessment

Look at any of the founding work that was set in motion ...

• George Brown on the Omnibus Environmental Bill, 1969

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Ethics_and_Climate_Change

• @GreenPolicy360, 'The beginning of the modern environmental era'

Look at the record of the 'environmental era'...

Unprecedented environmental protection, a vision that began a process that continues to this day...

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Our Biggest Experiment

Look at how thin our atmosphere is

Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms

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The By-Products of an Industrial Age

Externalities - Emissions - Toxic Chemicals

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science

SJS / Siterunner: A worldwide environmental protection movement began to take on momentum in the 1960s. A growing realization that human impact on Earth's systems enabling life were at risk and the dangers were multiplying became a new politics. The tag "green" was given to these diverse political, business, and educational efforts. Green politics covers a vast array of endeavors and initiatives and your GreenPolicy360 siterunner has participated in green environmental efforts since the mid 1960s. Environmental security work included legislative initiatives with US Congressman George E. Brown, and his 1970 and 1980s coalitions and outreach, and work on policy proposals with California Governor Jerry Brown, especially in drafting the 1992 presidential campaign platform. This formative work was key to my drafting and putting forward a founding US national Green Party platform.

George E. Brown Jr -- Governor Jerry Brown -- Jerry Brown 92 Presidential Platform -- U.S. Green Party Founding Platform

Adding Environmental full-cost accounting and eco-nomics as an expressed body of thought, I believed was an essential component of the US Green Platform that I was charged with drafting.

The attempt to address the costs of global/local emissions and externalities that are human-caused has continued since the late 1970s and first National Climate Act legislation, that was authored by Congressman Brown.

My hope continues that more rational, comprehensive definitions of security, of real and sustainable security for nations and communities would motivate actions across the globe to preserve and protect life.

Human responsibility to measure and manage to avoid harmful and potential tragic consequences is in our hands.

Local and far-sighted actions are part of a green vision -- a damage-control mission that focuses on protecting life and health.

Classic liberal capitalism does not take into account "Externalities" ... These missing costs, an environmental full-cost accounting, are systemically profound in climate change.

The theory of "The Invisible Hand" does not take into account and factor in to climate change the price of carbon burning activities.

Eco-nomics

Environmental full-cost accounting

As business and politics moves into the 21st century we must advanced our awareness of full-cost eco-nomics.

For three decades, as environmental advocates, we have pressed green discussion/debate and decision-making.

Now is the time to recognize the scope of the challenge and to act together across boundaries, cooperatively.

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