.realaxelfoley and dwallacewells discuss the long-term ramifications of Joe Manchin’s climate obstruction
Coal is sticking around for a while. Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images With precisely zero votes to spare in the Senate, Democrats’ multitrillion-dollar plan was always going to be a tight squeeze. Now, the bill’s key climate provision is in mortal danger, thanks to the preferences of a certain senator from West Virginia. I spoke with New York deputy editor David Wallace-Wells about the long-term ramifications of Joe Manchin’s monumental decision.
We’re not walking away from the solution to climate change — the problem is much, much bigger than that. But we are walking away from the biggest thing we are considering doing right now, which is dispiriting on both a climate level and a faith-in-American-government level. We know what we need to do here. We can’t do anything close. And the biggest thing we could manage is being torpedoed by a single senator representing just 1.7 million Americans.
Ben: So, just to be clear, there is simply no viable alternative to this measure that could pass the Senate or be implemented through executive action? What about the possibility of that old chestnut the carbon tax, which may be revived partly in response to Manchin’s position? For all this to happen in the immediate run-up to the COP26 climate conference is especially distressing, even for someone like me who hasn’t had an enormous amount of faith that much progress would be made there. For the U.S.
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