Has the US become too big to be governable?
Gov. Schwarzenegger recently announced that he would be organizing a summit of local leaders from around the globe to discuss how to best fight climate change. Schwarzenegger, who has regularly come into conflict with his party and the Bush administration over environmental policy, is admirably filling the leadership vacuum, along with other local officials like Mayor Bloomberg in New York, that our federal government has created from its inaction on climate policy. As Schwarzenegger puts it, the federal government has been “asleep at the wheel.” Either that, or as a commenter in the above linked Grist article wondered: Has the US really become too big to implement an intelligent and comprehensive policy?
The goal of Schwarzenegger’s conference is to “form a broad international alliance, so that when the Kyoto negotiators start their work in Poland this December they will have our summit as a framework.” The Governors Global Climate Summit will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 18 and 19. This is one month before the UN is scheduled to hold meetings in Poland to discuss what agreement will replace the Kyoto Protocol, set to expire at the end of 2012.
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