The woman from the Sustainable Future Coalition, Emii Li Song, projected an air of practiced reasonableness. Though her organization’s members were among the worst polluters in the history of humanity, she had a solution. “We need a carbon pricing mechanism, it’s that simple. And frankly, we also have to be concerned about the spate of attacks by eco-terrorists. We believe that Congress has to act on both fronts—on climate but also on the security of our energy systems.”

