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No Need to Wait to Enact Carbon Pricing by Barbara Fett Timmer
Folks, if our planet could talk it would scream for help! We can no longer assume “manifest destiny” when harvesting and over harvesting earth’s resources without thought to consequences of global warming and climate changes. The International Panel on Climate Change at the UN released the Sixth Assessment Report, focusing on mitigation strategies; how to slow the warming trend. Carbon pricing is mentioned 680 times and called “the most powerful and efficient” strategy available to reduce carbon emissions. This requires putting a price on pollution, to incentivize companies to transition to clean energy, increase jobs in clean energy, and rethink their operations to reduce carbon emissions. The good news is that it is possible here, right now. It has attracted already a great deal of study; and with the right cooperation among our governing bodies it could implemented right now. Even better? A “carbon cash back” from the monies collected from this strategy could be distributed back to ...
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