Last night , America meet the 2016 election season ’s newest star . Portly , deep red - enclothe , spectacled , mustached , and just a little bit giddy , Kenneth Bone was catnip for the blase , half - drunk , miserable masses watching the debate . The internetcouldn’t keep out up about him , and the press followed courting . “ The Ballad of Ken Bone , ” the Atlanticmewled ; “ And the winner of the presidential debate is … Ken Bone , ” CNNdeclared ; “ Ken Bone Is the Only Honest Man in This Election , ” Esquireannounced .
This , my friend , is all horseshit . Ken Bone is n’t a hero . Ken Bone took the nation ’s only shot at asking a essential query about the prospect ’ glide path to scientific discipline and energy and jauntily smother it to demise . Ken Bone so attractively make out up the execution of what could have been a firmly - hitting , dividing line - in - the - sand question that he may as well have been planted in the audience by the fossil fuel industry . Ken Bone is a interior symbolization , sure — of our staring unfitness to call climate variety or vigor insurance in any other way that is n’t just , “ Oh , boy ! The environment ! Will you attend at that ? ”
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First , let ’s rewind and look back at what , incisively , Ken Bone asked .
“ What steps will your energy insurance take to meet our energy need while at the same fourth dimension rest environmentally favorable and derogate problem red for fossil power plant workers ? ”
Are you fucking josh me , Ken ?
This head is tantamount to ask , “ So , what do you think about all that poppycock going on in Syria ? ” or “ Man , constabulary savagery , huh ? ” It ’s one of the wide , softest interrogative conceivable , and it does n’t even name climate alteration by name . Ken Bone chose to devote his wanted rhetorical capital to the business enterprise side of science , while leave out the actual science almost entirely .
The candidates , of trend , were captivated . “ I suppose it ’s such a great enquiry , ” coo Donald Trump , whodenied ever denying climate changeduring the last debate . He then exit on to bloviate about “ clean coal , ” which , besidesnotactually existing , also earmark him to neatly side - step any tough statement about climate change , clime skill , or any of the specific issues presently plaguing our satellite that will almost certainly cause our downfall in about 100 - odd twelvemonth . Hillary Clinton go on about turning America into a “ twenty-first century unclouded vim superpower , ” though she did acknowledge — extremely shortly — that climate variety is a “ serious problem . ”You do n’t say .
That climate change — and skill in general — didn’t come up in any veridical way during the debate should n’t come up as a surprise , because we are the country , after all , that continues to refuse the problem exists in the first stead . But that ’s on the nose why Ken Bone missed his chance so monumentally . You had the chance in the palm of your hands , Ken . You could have trapped them . You could have tricked Trump into suppose the other astoundingly silent things about science we all get it on he ’s capable of .
Instead , all we got was that lousy question , and the emergence of the Ken Bone Love Train . Sorry , Ken . You ’re probably a bully guy . Everyone call you a hero is n’t wrong to want some kind of beam ignitor amidst the supermassive disastrous hole that was last night ’s debate . But that does n’t mean you did n’t screw up a cherished opportunity to add some subject matter to the discourse .
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