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Tom Toles departs the Washington Post:

Toles: Climate change is the nation’s most pressing concern and a threat to humankind. Toles says the ‘70s environmental movement made him realize the significance of global warming and the need to amplify awareness of it.

“Climate change was something that I was almost manic about, [but] it wasn’t a very popular topic for political cartooning.”

Toles as he retires from his decades long career says most of his work surrounding climate change wasn’t well-received initially, but that didn’t deter him for making drawings about it; he felt it had to be addressed. Toles told himself he was “going to keep coming back to it and hammer on [the] subject until people start paying attention.”

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Readers of GreenPolicy360 should look at “The Madhouse Effect” — a satiric portrayal of climate change denialists — that Tom Toles co-authored in 2016 with renowned climate scientist Michael Mann. Through this book, the authors hope to change people’s attitude toward global warming.

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Toles says he’s “alarmed” it has taken so long for people to acknowledge climate change as a grave threat on a mass scale.

He says he is shocked to see people debating its validity and that he can’t believe government economic policies that favor industries continue even to this day.

• https://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2021/05/a-conversation-with-tom-toles

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