4/26/17, 3:34 PM The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need | The Nation Page 1 of 18 https://www.thenation.com/article/the-policy-weapon-climate-activists-need/ T (https://www.thenation.com/login/) CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMY FOSSIL FUELS By Gar Alperovitz , Joe Guinan and Thomas M. Hanna TODAY 2:45 PM F T E P The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need Government can save the climate from burning the same way it saved the economy from depression: Buy out the companies behind the crisis. A coal-fired power plant in Holcomb, Kansas, on February 2, 2007. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel)