Future historians will be 'astonished' that we let the planet burn to protect coal, economist says

Somewhere along the line I got the impression that humans were smart. You know, tool use and written communication and reduced fat Corn Nuts and all that. Unfortunately, just because Grandma can open a can of Chef Boyardee without throwing it against a big tree like an ape or Donald Trump might doesn’t mean we’re going to save our planet in time to secure a viable future for humanity.

Of course, the solutions for combating climate change are available to us—in theory, anyway. That’s because we do have many brave, smart people working on these things. But you have to take those solutions off the shelf and implement them, and that’s when we start breaking drill bits trying to get to the gooey nougat center of Joe Manchin’s head.