Biden wants to tackle climate change. His pitch is all about jobs.
Gina McCarthy has a message. In press briefings and interviews over the past month, the blunt-talking White House National Climate Adviser – dubbed by some the “Anthony Fauci of the environment” – has repeated the same refrain, again and again.
It isn’t about polar bears, or melting ice caps, or even protecting the earth for our children and grandchildren.
Instead, Ms. McCarthy’s message is about employment.
“When he hears the word ‘climate’” she said of President Joe Biden at a press briefing earlier this month, in a line that has become familiar, “he thinks jobs.”
She went on to discuss the possibilities of new innovation, of “grabbing back the supply chain we have lost offshore,” and about “growing millions of good-paying
