It’s too late to protect everything. To save the climate, we need to build so much wind and solar that some will go in bad places. Not doing so would be much worse. Rather than climate denial, the environmental community has tradeoff denial.”

It’s not trade protectionism, it’s a level playing field.”

Pascal Canfin, chair of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee, commenting on a preliminary agreement between E.U. member states and the European Parliament to impose a tariff on imports from countries that insufficiently price their carbon emissions, in Europe Reaches Deal for Carbon Tax Law on Imports, New York Times, Dec. 13.

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