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The author addresses environmental issues that he sees as pressing concerns, focusing on the need for a normative ethical and scientific framework to guide environmental policy decisions, as well as a framework for comparing the environmental and human impacts of using different renewable energy sources. The author is critical of nuclear power and argues that solar, wind, and ocean wave power could offer a better alternative to mitigate climate change.

In the article, the author discusses the possible impact of the articles written by climate skeptic Bjorn Lombord in "The Wall Street Journal" about the alleged true effects of climate change and climate policy on the efforts to mitigate climate change. Also cited are Lombord' claims that global warming has reduced landfalling hurricanes and deaths from cold, as well as his controversial 2001 book "The Skeptical Environmentalist."

The article discusses the impact of U.S. Donald Trump's rejection of the Paris climate accord on world politics. Topics discussed include slowing the global momentum toward renewable energy and some cities and states that formed a climate alliance to announce they will meet targets set in the Paris accord on their own including California.