No Easy Fix for Climate Problem

(National Review) As France learned recently short-sighted policies are not the answer to climate change. NBCs Katy Tur responding to an article in the New Yorker about climate looked into the camera and asked How pointless is my life? And how pointless are the decisions that I make on a day-to-day basis when we are not focused on climate change every day when its not leading every one of our newscasts?" Its a safe bet that not only will climate change not lead all newscasts it will not even lead Katy Turs very often. And the reason is not any of those often proffered for failure to act in the ways activists prefer. It wont be that she is a climate change denier. It wont be that she was bought off by the fossil-fuel industry. And it wont be that she doesnt care. It will not lead because her program is a business and if she begins her newscast every day with the same story people will tire of it pretty quickly and soon shell be out of a job. Still I dont doubt Turs sincerity. Both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association have reported an increase in what is being dubbed climate anxiety." Fear of catastrophe is apparently widespread. Kids return from school fearful that they wont live to adulthood. The National Resources Defense Council offers tips on banishing the Climate Change Blues." Al Gore may have many fine traits but his effort to sow panic about climate with An Inconvenient Truth (2006) was a tremendous disservice to reasonable policymaking and to the very cause he was promoting.