"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall." - Thomas Paine, 1794, Introduction to The Age of Reason
There is a reasonable debate about the appropriate social response to human impacts on the environment and climate change. “Reasonable” means evaluating policy alternatives based on their consequences, good and bad, in recognition of the considerable uncertainty that attaches to those estimates. There is also an unreasoned debate that evaluates alternatives by their intentions.
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