Will the U.S. solve the climate change problem? Blogs Scientific American Community Annotated

by dbiello

Mar 29, 2008

Either the ingenuity unleashed by the United States own special mix of free markets and government regulation will solve the climate change crisis or the rest of the world, having witnessed an American government content to stick its head in the sand, will forcibly compel the country into a green future. Such, at least, were the terms of the debate last night that wrapped up Day 1 of the State of the Planet conference at Columbia University.