Alex Flint and Kalee Kreider admit that ordinary central planning won’t reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet despite “the incredible ingenuity of people and markets,” they suggest a different form of central planning is needed: namely, adaptation in the form of “changing where and how we grow crops, and where people can safely live,” among other government-driven dislocations (“We Can’t Stop Climate Change, So We Need to Prepare for It,” op-ed, Oct. 20). Do Mr. Flint and Ms. Kreider believe people and markets can’t adapt over time without the diktats of officials and experts?
In any case, none of the “dire predictions” to which they allude has come to pass. The purported “safe” limit on warming of 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius is a political construct. There is no “science” underlying it.