I think the last few days of discourse reveal that the climate policy space suffers from over-siloing and too much specialization.

We have leading voices touted as the green community’s top experts who have no idea how international trade flows work, what local tax bases and labor markets look like, or what considerations American policymakers need to weigh when making sanctions policy.

Even in the energy space, they are so locked-in on what renewables are good at (electricity) that they have no awareness of industry, agriculture, maritime shipping, or aviation.

I remember talking to someone on the Harris econ policy team with an idea but he told me it was out of his jurisdiction because energy/climate is a different team than economics.

But energy is a really important part of the economy, and the analytic toolkit of the economics profession is important for understanding energy issues — it’s too big to treat like a niche cause isolated from everything else.

And of course global warming is a *global* issue — you can’t begin to think about it without thinking about the foreign policy aspects