I am grateful to all three commenters for taking the time to read and comment on the excerpt in this publication of my article, Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future. I am also grateful to the organizers of the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference, co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute and Vanderbilt University School of Law, for providing me with this additional opportunity to reply to the comments.

My reply is directed exclusively to one of the three comments, no doubt because it is the most provocative. The comment by Keith Cole, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs at General Motors, certainly should win the prize for best title: Geniuses Versus Zombies: To Address Climate for the Long Haul, Empower the Innovators, but Don't Disinter the "Dead Hand." In describing my article's recommendations, Cole's comment claims that "like zombies from a bad movie, these proposals would stalk future generations, replacing their wisdom with the decisions of the (potentially long-dead) legislators of today." I applaud a good turn of phrase--like Cole's here--and was a big fan of the classic 1960s horror flick, Night of the Living Dead, which Cole's comment strongly evokes. But I think this critique is fundamentally misguided.