I don't think Piketty is doing his fight against wealth inequality any favors by lumping it in with the global degrowth movement. Like imagine Bernie Sanders rallying voters with a call to tax the billionaires and redistribute the money to people living in other countries.

The “climate hushing” debate is back and people are very mad about it. A NYT op-ed last month from @Matthuber78 argued Democrats should stop talking about climate entirely in electoral politics. Rather, they should lean into affordability, win back working class voters, and trust that the policy outcomes follow even if the language doesn't. It spawned a pretty fierce debate. My take: it depends on the electoral context. But also, the debate over exactly what language to use misses a much bigger problem. America has become structurally incapable of building things, regardless of who wins or how they frame the problem. The last 15 years produced what @ppavnr calls "ideologically portable" obstruction. The left blocks fossil fuels with litigation and environmental review. The right blocks wind and solar with the same toolkit. And novel coalitions of environmentalists and conservatives are banding together to block things (like data centers) that used to have broad bipartisan support. The result is that no approval is ever final. Projects get permitted, then litigated, then blocked, then reversed, then litigated again. This cycle is rooted in some of the recent climate messaging. The belief that we have 10 years to avert total catastrophe convinced environmental groups that every piece of fossil fuel infrastructure had to be stopped. That normalized an obstructionist playbook, which the Trump Administration has now used against clean energy. This week on Open Circuit @JigarShahDC and I were joined by @JaneAFlegal to dig into this tension. We talk through Matt and Pavan’s arguments, and think through what will actually move the ball forward. youtube.com/watch?v=jNAjACOz…

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