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Kirkus reviews hailed the first volume of The Seinfeld Election series as “chilling but sober. . . . A brief but astute primer on the nation’s economic vulnerabilities.”Volume II tackles another vital issue neglected by the candidates: climate change and energy policy. No issue engenders starker or more passionate divisions. Secretary Clinton went all in with activists’ charge that global warming threatens every aspect of human life. Candidate Trump has previously called global warming a hoax while expressing a love for coal and urging more drilling for oil. Yet neither chose to make this a meaningful issue in the campaign. The failure to engage on climate change follows a sad pattern in Washington. President Bush(43) largely ignored the issue. President Obama was given to grand pronouncements and unilateral initiatives, with no apparent thought of gathering Congressional support by the hard work of dialog or compromise. This approach has set the table for President Trump to unwind those initiatives. America finds itself trapped between one side that detests the workings of the market and an opposing side that discounts market-frustrating environmental efforts. The only viable, positive, and durable answer may be “Market-Based Green.” The climate change deniers are engaging in the worst kind of wishful thinking. The Arctic Ice Cap and glaciers around the world are melting. The photos don’t lie; they are not Pixar animations. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 is far higher than any human has ever breathed. It is silly to think that man could re-create a Jurassic Era atmosphere without also turning back the clock on the climate. But climate activists are just as guilty when they espouse a Chicken Little reaction, advocating intrusive and gruesomely expensive remedies as the only alternative to doing nothing. America was founded on the precept that coercive government action should be a last rather than a first resort; too many climate activists have no regard or patience for this prudent history.“Capitalism or the climate” is a false dichotomy that dictates and ensnares political discussions of this vital topic. The Seinfeld Election II probes the flaws in each side’s position and the options that both ignore, options that recognize the underlying problem while relying on science and the free market to carry the weight in addressing it. It outlines how predictable advances, supported by private and public R&D, can deliver both cheap and abundant energy and an end to global warming, given a fair chance. Only when Washington’s climate becomes less toxic will Earth’s climate be able to restore itself.
