It's worth remembering that national pride (and the beating that pride took when the Soviet Union beat us to space) is what drove the US to make such fast progr

It's worth remembering that national pride (and the beating that pride took when the Soviet Union beat us to space) is what drove the US to make such fast progress. That national pride does not exist as a driving force for addressing climate change. We, in many ways, don't even have a national consensus on the need to address climate change.