Foreign Policy: Time to show some spine on climate change
Just a word before we go to any reporters on the climate beat. Foreign Policy magazine has a long, tightly argued, and furious article to read. Its hed is The End of Magical Climate Thinking. It’s point is to skewer greenies who think that the road to a low-carbon economy is, if we would just take it, one big adventure in high-tech salvation, more jobs, more productivity, and no regrets. From the Breakthrough Institute, authors Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger argue that failure of political courage by leaders and dissociation from reality by many advocates for lowering greenhouse gases have stifled the truth that to succeed in not only necessary but will be hard, costly, and it will take a long time.
I hope it’s easier than these guys say. But I suspect it’s not.
- Charlie Petit
