Politics will slow immediate substantive change to the nation’s energy and climate policies, but slow change is better than none, and a disaster like BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico helps push things along, a panel on environmental policy issues said Thursday.
“Politics is the art of the possible,” Daniel J. Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy for the Center for American Progress, said at the forum sponsored by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
Weiss joined a panel of experts on the environment as part of the Center’s speakers series on critical issues in climate change. The focus was on the green economy, clean energy and the implications on policy changes in those areas in light of the oil spill in the Gulf.
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