The Build Back Better bill essentially died in December. But from the ashes of that proposed $1.8 trillion federal overreach, urged on by appeals from activists (as reported in The New York Times) that we are facing “deadly storms, heat waves, drought and wildfires made worse by climate change,” President Joe Biden and legislators already are talking about new laws focused explicitly on climate change.
That would be a mistake. Rather than caving to emotion-driven hype, we should seize on the failure of the original Build Back Better to return to a reasoned examination of the science. We now have time to pursue measured fact-based policy that will ensure long-term sustainability of our planet without, a) bankrupting us, and b) moving us toward authoritarianism.
Climate change is real. It continues unabated, just as it has for thousands of years, and our planet is warming very gradually. But the effects of that change are being greatly exaggerated by those who have become invested in the doom-and-gloom global scenario. They are fueling a dangerous, mostly emotion-based policy agenda.
