The Wall Street Journal’s Climate & Energy Column Doesn’t Mince Words

Today’s piece in the WSJ’s Climate and Energy section is called “The Problem With Stuff.”

It begins:

A Glass-Half-Full Look at the Gargantuan Carbon Footprint of Making Stuff

Every year, America gets through roughly 700 pounds of cement, nearly as much steel, 300 pounds of plastic and 25 pounds of aluminum per person. Providing the raw materials of modern life with far less emissions is starting to look tantalizingly possible, but the making-stuff business remains a laggard in its response to climate change.

“Making less stuff” is akin to morphing away from our consumer society, and it’s refreshing to see the WSJ talk about that, even obliquely.

IMO, what we are seeing here is the WSJ’s trying to position itself as dead-on “centrist” in their journalism.  This is distinctly more to the left from their earlier conservative leaning; it would have been fanciful to think of anything associated with climate change even a few years ago.