By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at DownWithTryanny!
Let’s take a trip to fantasyland, to a world in which the U.S. addresses climate change in a meaningful way.
What does a meaningful response to climate change entail? Among other things, it means enacting the following two policies energy rationing and conscription and starting to enact them now. (Both are inevitable, of course, but probably not until after it matters, and not in an orderly way.)
Energy Rationing
Let’s look at rationing first, then turn to conscription. To paraphrase something I wrote in 2019 (“The Elephant In the Room: Addressing Climate Change Means Rationing), it’s very simple. We’ve dithered so long in addressing climate change that to address it effectively means not just a radical restructuring of the entire economy, it also means energy rationing.