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Mark Hulbert, thanks for this article, in spite of its rather sobering discussion of the place we Americans find ourselves in the climate change struggle. I do find encouragement in the fact that the market seems to be taking care of this problem all by itself. The rather rapid decline in the coal and oil businesses, the very rapid shifts in the auto industry toward electric vehicles, and the explosion of research and development in the green hydrogen business all point to changes in the thinking in corporate boardrooms that will eventually drag the rest of us along. I would bet that investing with the above mentioned changes in mind will result in above-market returns in the decades to come, making the climate vs. higher returns compromise a non-issue.

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