Romm Doubles Down on Egypt/Climate Link

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By Keith Kloor
Feb 2, 2011 6:37 PMNov 20, 2019 5:35 AM

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I have a few questions for Joe Romm. 1) When you discuss the 2007-2008 , do you focus on what triggered it (such as the housing bubble burst or underlying root causes (such as deregulation)? 2) When you discuss BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, do you focus on what triggered it (such as the blowout preventer) or systemic root causes (such as industry-wide practices)? 3) When you discuss the recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, do you focus on what sparked it (such as the suicide of a Tunisian man), a contributing factor (such as rising food prices), or underlying causes (such as social inequity, injustice, and government repression)? Romm need not bother stopping by with his answers. I found them at his blog. 1) He goes with mega-root causes, as this Ponzi scheme post demonstrates. 2) He identifies larger, industry-wide attitudes and practices as the main reasons for the BP spill. (So far, we're two for two, in that Romm explores underlying causes to major events.) 3) He focuses like a laser beam on a single contributing factor (here and here)--high food prices, apparently so he can make a larger, causal connection to global warming. In his latest post, Romm concedes that

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