ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of the book. This book notes that US climate politics is a rather maddening topic to study. As a governance strategy aimed at restoring and enhancing accumulation, neoliberalism creates a strong inclination to cultivate the climate and energy realms as new sites of economic growth. Yet as an ideology steeped in a deep antipathy toward industrial regulation, neoliberalism has created enormous obstacles for policymakers wishing to develop a proactive form of climate policy. Against the common depiction of neoliberal climate policy as being mostly about market-based governance, the book argues that carbon markets are merely one aspect of a broader drive to foster accumulation through climate policy, and do not crowd-out traditional interventionist strategies on the part of the state.
