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"You can't suddenly stop all emissions in one day"

That's an ideological constraint: the difference climate activists take with the dominant policy approach is that yes, we can just shut down militaries and planes

Yes, we can change how we live, in ways that diminish state power and destroy capital (while preserving homes, food, and people)

What Nordhaus is struggling to do is convince people we need to make steep sacrifices to preserve capital