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Climate-Change Sanity Lost and Found

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The Wall Street Journal
By Holman W Jenkins

Last Saturday, a founder of a prominent Manhattan architecture firm, responsible for a recent historic renovationlets call him Alvin Muffleyalerted me via email that I am among selfish and foolish boomers who have little regard for the futures of your kids and grandkids. Apparently I lack understanding of the real threat of climate change and stand as an obstacle to changes that must occur if future generations are to survive.

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This weirdly impertinent email came in response to a column guilty only of discussing why a carbon tax would be better than our current climate policies, and why such a tax seemed a heavy political lift only because of the abyss of rancorous tribalism into which the climate discussion has fallen.

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