This bill, then, is a stealthy way to drive Americans as a society toward a cleaner future. It’s turning small individual action—you being better able to afford a heat pump or solar panels—into collective action.
But how much individual change matters in the face of systemic problems has been a thorny debate for years. For example, does it really matter if you decide to fly less to reduce your carbon footprint? After all, air travel is a small fraction of global emissions, and there’s a whole international economic system in place that runs almost entirely on fossil fuels. Wouldn’t it be more impactful to change the behavior of, say, the
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