But while the literal usage of the phrase climate change is dwarfed by the language of the issue du jour, it’s not true that the topic has disappeared from conversation. Quite the opposite. In a more fundamental sense, the effects of climate change have evolved from the language of science fiction to real economics. And, crucially, the forces once discussed under the banner of climate, from clean energy to industrial policy, are now reshaping markets, industry, technology, and geopolitics. Climate is infused throughout everything. For a while now, I’ve said that to talk about climate change you need to understand these other forces; today, it’s increasingly clear that to fully understand the evolving world you need to understand climate—or at least the technological, economic, and political dynamics that it has created.
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