Forbes December 30, 2024
Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, died this weekend. In these moments, decent people set aside politics and offer reflections in a more civil way. President Carter was a humanitarian and a statesman who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. His contributions in the White House, within the Carter Center, and through his work with Habitat for Humanity will be viewed favorably through the lens of history. He also somewhat of a hidden legacy in the fight against climate change.
For context, scientists were sounding the alarm about climate change during the seventies. Oddly, a flawed narrative based mainly on one study and a popular magazine article fed a longstanding myth that scientists were...