After much huffing and puffing from the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, 2020 front-runner Joe Biden released his climate change plan today. Even though his instincts on the issue are solid, the former vice president finds himself at the crossroads of an “intersectional” movement and the working class that would likely win him the race in a general election against President Trump.
Biden’s plan requires a vast expansion of the regulatory state and $5 trillion in spending. But it at least touches on — just barely — the only two things that matter in the long run: expanding nuclear power and exerting pressure on China and India to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. That Biden had to equivocate around these two issues at all just demonstrates how infuriating the climate change debate has become.
