The Measure of a Fog: Politics April 6, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment Climate change represents an unprecedented physical and technological challenge. But perhaps the biggest hurdle yet to be overcome is political in nature. Overcoming a planet’s worth of cross-cutting and conflicting interests remains a daunting problem — and one that has been made even more complicated with the ascension of a U.S. administration that dismisses most science on the issue.