Gregg Easterbrook is a fellow of the Brookings Institution and author, most recently, of The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse. He is also a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, and the Washington Monthly and is currently completing a book about the acceleration of global change.
There is only one rational course of action when it comes to climate change: put a price on greenhouse gases, then see what happens.
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