The climate/energy bill is dead this year. Senator John Kerry thinks that the Senate might get around to passing a huge, highly controversial lame duck bill in the middle of a campaign season. He may be alone in that delusion; the rest of us need to face reality. Reality is that the road to a comprehensive, halfway decent climate/energy bill will not, in all likelihood, not be traversed any time soon.
Excellent post-mortems can be found by David Roberts (there's no silver lining in this cloud), Paul Krugman (Who cooked the planet?), and Tom Friedman ("we're gonna be sorry"), among others. Rather than rue the road not taken, here's a few thoughts on the roads ahead.
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