Grist: Let`s just accept it: America`s current political and economic systems are incapable of responding adequately to climate change. As things stand, reducing carbon emissions - or more broadly, shifting to sustainability - is a kind of add-on, a second-tier consideration, bolted onto systems and institutions that were built for other purposes.
Specifically, U.S. domestic and foreign policy have long been designed around the Cold War, ramping up trade abroad, expanding up and out and into the suburban...