From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
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Subject: The Price Is Wrong: A New Book Unwittingly Makes The Case That Wind And Solar Can't Solve Climate Change
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:05:04 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
The Price Is Wrong: A New Book Unwittingly Makes The Case That Wind And Solar
Can't Solve Climate Change
Can Wind and Solar Solve Climate Change?
A new book unwittingly makes the case that they can't.
April 21, 2024, 7:00 AM
By Ted Nordhaus, the executive director of the Breakthrough Institute.
In 2015, the British economist Nicholas Stern argued that the reason for
excessive carbon emissions was not just one market failure-the familiar fact
that fossil fuel prices do not include the environmental and social costs of
burning them-but rather six such failures. Laid out in Why Are We Waiting? The
Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change, Stern's fusillade of
market failures cut against the prevailing case for pricing carbon, long
considered a silver bullet: Get the price of carbon right, the argument went,
and market actors would come up with the best and most efficient solutions
without the need for policymakers to pick clean-technology winners, devise
complex regulatory schemes, or otherwise micromanage the transition.
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