Yes: Most of the time, public policy is a series of trade-offs: higher taxes or fewer services, more regulation or more freedom of action. We attempt to balance our preferences: for having a beer after work, and for sober drivers. We meet somewhere in the middle, compromise, trade off. We tend to think were doing it right when everyones a little unhappy.
But when it comes to climate change, the essential problem is not one groups preferences against anothers. Its not--at bottom--industry versus...