Historians of the future will look back on 2022 as the year America gave up addressing human-caused climate change. And given the United States’ critical role in international leadership, this will be remembered as the year the world gave up, too. President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda contained much of the Green New Deal, aiming for a 100% clean energy economy by 2050; making big investments in clean-energy technology, climate research and innovation; becoming the world’s leading exporter of clean-energy technology, and standing up to big polluters and greenhouse-gas emitters. But even watered down, it couldn’t make it through...