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Paul Krugman: What a dying Great Salt Lake says about our future

If we can’t save the Great Salt Lake, what chance do we have of saving the planet?

(Bryan Tarnowski | The New York Times) Land that used to be submerged by the Great Salt Lake in Utah, March 17, 2022. “What’s happening to the Great Salt Lake is pretty bad,” writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. “But what I found really scary about the report is what the lack of an effective response to the lake’s crisis says about our ability to respond to the larger, indeed existential threat of climate change.”

(Bryan Tarnowski | The New York Times) Land that used to be submerged by the Great Salt Lake in Utah, March 17, 2022. “What’s happening to the Great Salt Lake is pretty bad,” writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. “But what I found really scary about the report is what the lack of an effective response to the lake’s crisis says about our ability to respond to the larger, indeed existential threat of climate change.”

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By Paul Krugman | The New York Times