If the US shouldn't rejoin the Paris Climate Accords, what should we do?
First, recognize reality: there is climate change but no climate crisis. Fossil fuels' overall impact is incredibly positive.
Second, liberate oppressed non-carbon alternatives, above all nuclear energy.
First, recognize reality: there is climate change but no climate crisis. Fossil fuels' overall impact is incredibly positive.
Second, liberate oppressed non-carbon alternatives, above all nuclear energy.
The only way to lower CO2 emissions and benefit America is developing ways to produce low-carbon energy that are truly reliable and low-cost. Are China and India going to stop using fossil fuels so long as they are the lowest-cost option? They won’t and they shouldn’t.
America can lower emissions and energy costs by decriminalizing nuclear energy. Nuclear is actually the safest source of energy and the only way to provide reliable non-carbon electricity anywhere in the world. Yet politicians are overregulating it to death.
Ultra-clean, reliable nuclear plants are being shut down despite ultra-low fuel costs. Why? Because of policies like the PTC/ITC wind/solar subsidies, which force us to overpay for unreliable power and underpay for reliable power. And Congress just renewed these abominations!
The fossil fuel bans and “renewables only” policies supported by most Democratic politicians will make American energy incredibly unreliable and expensive. That won’t stop CO2 emissions from rising but it will ruin the American economy.
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