Whenever politicians discuss climate change, there is a lot of talk about science. The problem is that the actual conversation never ends up being very scientific. It always ends up being political, and if I were to list the number of problems made better by politics, what would follow is a blank page.
Politics is how we end up with promises to reverse the entire history of earth’s changing climate if only we relinquish our economic and energy freedom to politicians — who seem focused more on social justice and increasing the cost of energy than on protecting our natural ecosystems.
The longer we allow the false promise of a silver-bullet solution to dominate the conversation about climate change, the longer we will be stuck talking past each other. Two decades of international climate conferences should be proof enough.
Read Todd’s full op-ed at C3.