Ezra is declaring victory. Seriously. He begins his response by writing: “Jonah appears to cede the point that precisely none of his examples are related to the consumption of fossil fuels…” and then descends to defend his original argument which was always talking past my original point to begin with. Talk about “breathtakingly dishonest.” At least he didn’t drop the f-bomb this time. He still seems to think that we use up all of this fossil fuel energy because we’re ignorant Americans and the government is run by evil boneheaded conservatives and all we have to do is “decide” to do the right thing. Even though, as Iain notes below , Europe made all the decisions Ezra thinks are morally obvious and economically easy and that system is falling apart as we speak. Indeed, they already have lots of nuclear power plants in Europe and they’re still churning out C02 and they have economic growth we would consider unacceptable. Still, I’m glad that Klein likes nuclear power. I just wish he was right that it’s really easy to switch a multi-trillion dollar economy over to nuclear power essentially overnight.

Anyway, readers can judge for themselves the merits of our arguments. I have another point to make about Klein’s bad faith argumentation, but I’ll save it for morning because now I really do have to go.