Whom does compromise serve?

"The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown divergent,
and the laws of physics are not likely to yield."
Author Bill McKibben

Image Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring

Please bear in mind the epigram above as you contemplate the following news of the day:

• 'We have a deal': Biden announces infrastructure agreement 

The announcement leaves unclear the fate of Biden's promises of massive investment to slow climate change, which Biden this spring called "the existential crisis of our times."

• New rules for Minnesota’s large animal feedlots to be relaxed under compromise legislation

A compromise bill on environmental policy negotiated between the DFL-led House and the GOP-majority Senate relaxes a tougher permit for large animal feedlots. State regulators at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency had imposed the restrictions in February in an effort to cut water contamination from manure, but many farming and livestock organizations said the permit was inflexible and wouldn’t actually protect water in some circumstances.

•  "Allowing Line 3 to move forward is, at best, inconsistent with the bold promises on climate and environmental justice President Biden campaigned and was elected on," said Michael Brune, executive director @SierraClub #StopLine3


• IPCC steps up warning on climate tipping points in leaked draft report

  Climate scientists are increasingly concerned that global heating will trigger tipping points in Earth’s natural systems, which will lead to widespread and possibly irrevocable disaster, unless action is taken urgently.
  
  The impacts are likely to be much closer than most people realise, a a draft report from the world’s leading climate scientists suggests, and will fundamentally reshape life in the coming decades even if greenhouse gas emissions are brought under some control.

  
  

  Right's Security

  Paul Laurence Dunbar - 1872-1906

  What if the wind do howl without,
  And turn the creaking weather–vane;
  What if the arrows of the rain
  Do beat against the window–pane?
  Art thou not armored strong and fast
  Against the sallies of the blast?
  Art thou not sheltered safe and well
  Against the flood’s insistent swell?

  What boots it, that thou stand’st alone,
  And laughest in the battle’s face
  When all the weak have fled the place
  And let their feet and fears keep pace?
  Thou wavest still thine ensign, high,
  And shoutest thy loud battle–cry;
  Higher than e’er the tempest roared,
  It cleaves the silence like a sword.

  Right arms and armors, too, that man
  Who will not compromise with wrong;
  Though single, he must front the throng,
  And wage the battle hard and long.
  Minorities, since time began,
  Have shown the better side of man;
  And often in the lists of Time
  One man has made a cause sublime!

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