Really appreciate the CCL shoutout! As a member of the Chicago chapter, I can attest that having these climate conversations is a great experience. Ultimately, division is slowing us down, and we have to change minds across the aisle if we want DURABLE change that doesn't get tossed out every four years. Ultimately, though, everyone has noticed climate change in their own way, and engaging in active listening can nudge them in the right direction rather than shutting them down / making them hopeless / etc.
Ho hum! Meanwhile China and India are bringing millions out of grinding poverty and darkness through burning that terrible, nasty, despicable coal by the tens of thousands of tons. Building at least one coal burning electricity generation plant a week. Negates every highly ineffective solar panel and wind turbine built in the last 20+ years endangering the US and Europes grids! 😉
Given the outcome of this poll, how do you explain that half the US population still plans to vote for a psychopath climate denier (according to the - again - polls)?
"The World" may want climate action, but it is not yet willing to adopt the lowest cost way of achieving it: taxation of net emissions of CO2, public investments that use decision rules that mimic the tax, and removal of administrative obstacles that prevent firms from acting on the taxation of net CO2 emissions.
And really it's hard to blame "the World" becasue environmentalists who only "want" climate action, but have a professional responsibility to figure out how the get it, have not been telling the World and policy makers what they need to hear.
Really appreciate the CCL shoutout! As a member of the Chicago chapter, I can attest that having these climate conversations is a great experience. Ultimately, division is slowing us down, and we have to change minds across the aisle if we want DURABLE change that doesn't get tossed out every four years. Ultimately, though, everyone has noticed climate change in their own way, and engaging in active listening can nudge them in the right direction rather than shutting them down / making them hopeless / etc.
Ho hum! Meanwhile China and India are bringing millions out of grinding poverty and darkness through burning that terrible, nasty, despicable coal by the tens of thousands of tons. Building at least one coal burning electricity generation plant a week. Negates every highly ineffective solar panel and wind turbine built in the last 20+ years endangering the US and Europes grids! 😉
https://www.wri.org/insights/china-making-progress-climate-goals-faster-expected
Given the outcome of this poll, how do you explain that half the US population still plans to vote for a psychopath climate denier (according to the - again - polls)?
"The World" may want climate action, but it is not yet willing to adopt the lowest cost way of achieving it: taxation of net emissions of CO2, public investments that use decision rules that mimic the tax, and removal of administrative obstacles that prevent firms from acting on the taxation of net CO2 emissions.
And really it's hard to blame "the World" becasue environmentalists who only "want" climate action, but have a professional responsibility to figure out how the get it, have not been telling the World and policy makers what they need to hear.