Monday Opinion
Today’s Editors’ Choice
- Kathryn Jean Lopez: Climate, Life and Responsibility
- George Will: Public Broadcasting: Superfluous Yet Seemingly Immortal
- Peggy Noonan: Why History Will Repay Your Love
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Opinion in Brief
Kathryn Jean Lopez: “The Paris opt-out is not just about a climate treaty. As has been noted before this column, even environmental activists in the Left had their problems with this accord. The outrage in response to Trump’s decision may once again expose our perennial problem: seeing the federal government and nebulous international forces as the source of our salvation. The decisions you and I make today have a power that is much greater than we realize. Whatever your view of Trump’s move, it could provide an opportunity to consider how we can begin again, not wedded to political agendas, but with an insistence on using our freedom to its greatest potential. The climate treaty wasn’t ever going to make us look around and see everything as a gift calling us to better stewardship. … A nation of people who claim to care about some of the most fundamental things would do well to lead the way, free of distraction and despair.”