Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground

Yes: Most of the time, public policy is a series of trade-offs: higher taxes or fewer services, more regulation or more freedom of action. We attempt to balance our preferences: for having a beer after work, and for sober drivers. We meet somewhere in the middle, compromise, trade off. We tend to think we’re doing it right when everyone’s a little unhappy. But when it comes to climate change, the essential problem is not one group’s preferences against another’s. It’s not--at bottom--industry versus......

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