Readers will be relieved to learn this month that I successfully saved the planet, even if not quite in the way I wanted to. It’s perhaps no surprise that I wasn’t offered the option of banning cars completely and forcing everyone to travel by tandem bicycle, or simply outlawing cows, those tasty methane-emitters. But it felt more significant that I was unable to mandate a greater share of electricity production for nuclear power. And for some reason when I,
