Episode 472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming … Revisited
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Publisher: NPR Planet Money
Duration: 24:06
Summary from website: Climate change seems like this complicated, intractable problem. But maybe it doesn’t have to be.
In 2013, we talked to a couple economists about a very simple idea that could solve the climate change problem: Tax carbon emissions. A carbon tax could be paired with cuts in the income tax. It would drive down emissions without picking winners or losers, and without creating complicated regulations. It all seemed so elegant. So doable. At the time they made a bold prediction.
We promised to revisit their prediction in the summer of 2018, as many of you wonderful, fastidious, dedicated listeners have reminded us. We hear you.