“My assessment? You’ve got no carbon price, a toothless set of standards for buildings, vehicles, and the utility sector that, best case, will let business-as-usual roll on another ten years, money to ill-advisedly arm coastal real estate, and on top of it all, a tax cut? No one involved in this legislation appears to understand the gravity of the situation. If we’d enacted this forty years ago, yeah, sure, maybe the economy would have moved toward a less carbon-intensive path. But it’s too late for that. We’re going to be at two degrees by the end of the next decade, on our way to at least
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