Opponents — including plenty of former global warming deniers who have rebranded themselves as economic pragmatists — have cast these steps as too ambitious, too costly or both. Which is to say, we can’t afford to save the planet.
To put it as soberly as we can, it’s that same old suicidal nonsense recast to pass for common sense.
And the only reason we argue is cause someone makes fistfuls of money the way it is currently done.