A new US rule will require newly built large trucks to be 40% more fuel-efficient, as of 11 years from now. The require increases will be applied in three steps, with the first step being in 2021.

This would be just the sort of thing we needed, if there were no hurry about reducing CO₂ emissions. But it fails to recognize the urgency of the danger.

As Bill McKibben says, it's a real war, not just a metaphorical one, but he doesn't recognize that an organized human enemy is waging this war against civilization. It is led by the likes of the Koch brothers, Exxon, ALEC. the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Heatland Institute. Clinton showed her contempt for the issue by including Ken Salazar, who resembles the anti-mobilization business magnates McKibben describes from World War II, to lead her "transition team". Apparently she is planning a "transition" to a fried ecosphere.

Progressive organizations had better start endorsing Jill Stein, to show Clinton she can't take them for granted.