Readers’ Roundtable: Green Energy
Why are gas prices and heating bills so high? Are the green energy policies advocated by climate activists helping reduce carbon emissions? How can the free-market help tackle climate change? To answer these questions and more, the Adam Smith Society on Tuesday, December 6, at 8:00 p.m. ET hosted a virtual discussion with Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jim Meigs on his City Journal piece, “The Green War on Clean Energy” and his recent MI report, “Back from the Dead: Prospects for Restoring Closed Nuclear Plants to Operation.”
As an installment of our Readers’ Roundtable series, this was a closed Zoom call with the author.
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Speaker
James B. Meigs is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is the former editor of Popular Mechanics, where he helped reposition that century-old brand to become a major voice on technological issues of the day. He currently cohosts the How Do We Fix It? podcast and writes the Tech Commentary column for Commentary magazine. His coverage of energy, environmental policy, culture, and other topics has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Slate, the New York Times, and other publications. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Dartmouth College.