How the world is quietly winning on climate

Perhaps it’s time to give up on climate?That’s what all the serious people are saying. The targets we set to limit our carbon pollution are unachievable and universally fail. So let’s just stop pretending and drill, baby, drill.

A “pragmatic way forward” for the energy transition is to conclude, in essence, that it’s not happening, according to an April essay by energy historian Daniel Yergin and others. Current ambitions are “unrealistic and therefore unworkable,” a think tank set up by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair argued….