New York Times columnist wonders why the US did not spend more money on climate change during the pandemic

New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells wrote an op-ed lamenting that the Biden administration did not do more to address climate change during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Wallace-Wells argued that "the opportunity flashed brightly for climate action" because of the "crazily expansive period of public expenditure" during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

"For a moment, with free spending and loose money in wealthy capitals suggesting that Modern Monetary Theory had initiated a whole new steroid era of Keynesianism, something like a Green New Deal seemed not just conceivable but potentially the basic model for public investment the world over," he wrote.