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Climate change is really hard

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Climate change is really hard

I sadly do not have the answers here

Matthew Yglesias
Dec 1, 2020
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Climate change is really hard

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Member J.S. emailed me last week to ask “curious if you have a ‘what to do about climate change’ post in the works. I know Vox has covered that quite a bit but don't recall you writing about it much when you were there. Would be interested to see your ‘what we can actually do about this given political realities take.’”

The short answer is that I don’t have such a post in the works because I don’t know exactly what we should do about climate change. What I think the political realities show is that some of the primary season arguments about here’s a $2 trillion plan versus a $7 trillion plan versus a $1,782 quazillion plan were sort of pointless — the limiting factor on climate action has never been a lack of aspirational pledges. My main take, in line with the overall theme of this blog, is that the climate change problem is an extremely hard board to bore for some reasons that are pretty fundamentally baked into the structure of the issue.

Emily Atkin wrote a post at Heated taking iss…

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