Blah, Blah, Blah, the Climate Blame Game

Joel B. Stronberg
8 min readNov 12, 2021
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.

Cassius

For the first Earth Day in 1970, the famed illustrator Walt Kelly paraphrased Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry when his Pogo character looked across a field of debris and uttered the now iconic phrase. We have met the enemy, and he is us.

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Joel B. Stronberg

Stronberg is a thought leader in the climate community with over 40 years of experience covering environmental and sustainability issues as a freelancer.