Enviromental Jeopardy

My latest column for The Week opens

You must know the TV game show, “Jeopardy.” In this game, the host provides an answer. Contestants compete to guess the question.

Let’s play the public policy version.

ANSWER: “A great national undertaking to replace the nation’s coal-fired generators of electricity with a vast array of wind turbines, solar panels and geothermal stations.”

If you guessed, “What is a rational response to the problem of carbon dioxide emissions?” alas you return home to Muncie without a prize.

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