'When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn’t leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn’t leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change. Republicans must not shrink from this issue. Risk management is a conservative principle, as is preserving our natural environment for future generations. We are, after all, the party of Teddy Roosevelt.'
Not, alas, for a long time. But maybe Paulson's words — and the words of those like him — will keep us from going past too many points of no return.
Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession
We need to tax carbon dioxide emissions to protect our economy.