If you had told me, after Katrina and the BP disaster, that the only politically feasible action the US can take on climate change will be to force the public to accept it and shield its perpetrators from its costs, I would have said... well actually I said that #lalege www.nola.com/news/environ...
I don't think people understand what politics is for. You're told it's about creating consensus for the "best" possible collective actions. When really it's just about deciding who has to suffer the most given whatever already has happened.