Stephen Colbert agrees with CNN commentator Erick Erickson in calling for inaction on climate change: “What’s the point of going to all that trouble if me and Erick Erickson won’t be around to enjoy it? I don’t want to be one of those grandpas who spoils the grandkids with a habitable planet.”
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The episode also includes an interview with Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute, who argues the key to solving climate change is to make clean energy — including nuclear power — cheaper.