 In this March 29, 2013 photo, a rig drills for natural gas which will eventually be released using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on leased private property outside Rifle, in western Colorado. Once drilling is completed, wells are fractured to allow the flow of gas from deposits typically more than a mile underground. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that led to it. Yet this is precisely what we are now trying to do with climate change policy. The Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, many environmental groups and the
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 President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcasts his annual message to Congress on January 11, 1944, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo)The Wisconsin Public Radio/National Public Radio show To the Best of Our Knowledge regularly asks writers if they have a "Dangerous Idea” that they would like to talk about (unscripted). My Dangerous Idea was American exceptionalism. The democratic idea of American exceptionalism insisted that We the People can govern — that we don’t need kings and aristocrats — that we can govern ourselves. I did not speak on the dangers of the right-wing
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