Give Peace a Chance

Senator Steve Daines came to Baker, where I live, to talk about, as he put it, a “war on coal.” His visit was part of an energy tour leading up to an Energy Expo in Billings, which he organized on behalf of the fossil fuel industries. As the days have passed, and I have thought about what was implicit in what he said, I find myself increasingly disturbed by how he and other politicians, like Ryan Zinke, Tim Fox, Greg Gianforte, and Donald Trump are framing environmentalists.

Global warming is an established fact. Climate scientists are just short of unanimously agreeing that it is no...