Natural Man

"The former US senator from Wisconsin, who served for almost two decades as one of the chamber's most ardent advocates for climate action, publicly rebuked Trump's January 7 withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): 'Nothing in the Constitution grants the president any such power.'"

"That cry of frustration echoes the sentiments of many environmentalists in a moment when the Trump administration seems to be reversing all the progress that Feingold and others fought to achieve after the awakening that Americans experienced on the first Earth Day in 1970."

"Yet he has not given up on the prospect of building international coalitions to save the planet. In fact, he is actively forging them as a globe-trotting citizen diplomat on behalf of one of the most underreported yet strikingly successful environmental initiatives of our time."

Russ Feingold, a former Wisconsin senator and longtime climate action advocate, is responding to the Trump administration's environmental policy reversals by leading international conservation efforts. The administration has withdrawn from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and reversed climate progress achieved since Earth Day 1970. Feingold characterizes the current situation as a crisis, noting that powerful figures like Bill Gates are sending mixed environmental signals. Despite these setbacks, Feingold remains committed to building global coalitions to address environmental degradation. He serves as chair of the global steering committee for the Campaign for Nature, an underreported yet successful international environmental initiative focused on preserving natural ecosystems to protect the planet.

Read at The Nation