Obama wished we could have a wholesome debate such as this, and he lamented that the climate change deniers had made it impossible.88 But such a debate, even if possible, would be an impoverished mode of political argument. It assumes that our only choice is between resignation and imprudence on the one hand, and a value-neutral technocratic fix on the other. But this misses the deeper moral and political considerations that underlie the climate change controversy.
