What Elizabeth Kolbert wrote about Climate Change

Elizabeth Kolbert wrote http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2014/04/14/140414taco_talk_kolbert
about the politics of climate change.

Comparing the current situation with the past experience of dealing with CFCs and Ozone in the Stratosphere. Having read Merchants of Doubt by Oreskes and Conway, I remembered that individuals and businesses acted a long time before the government did to stop using aerosols.  Page 117, by the time the FDA announced regulations in 1977, CFC propellants were 1/4 of what they were at the peak.  Why?  Because the American public took action on their own, without any new laws or regulations.  It was very easy, they just stopped buying CFC propellants as much as possible.

How are individual Americans taking action to deal with Climate Change?
Americans are speaking with their pocket books again. Just like they did with CFCs. Americans are shifting the market place to non-fossil fuel energy sources by purchasing renewable energy from their local utilities, their choice of vehicles, their energy savings in the home and by recycling.  They are installing solar energy on schools, businesses and homes at rate that doubles in a very short time frame.  Everyone believes coal plants are going to be shut down over the next 10 to 20 years.  The key measurement is to look at what Americans are spending their money on in terms of non-fossil fuel energy sources and uses.