On the heels of the EPA’s decision last week to classify atmospheric carbon as a pollutant, Peter Huber outlines why the carbon indulgences won’t make a real dent. “We rich people can’t stop the world’s 5 billion poor people from burning the couple of trillion tons of cheap carbon that they have within easy reach.”
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The Carbon Sin Tax: Why The New Indulgence System Simply Doesn’t Work
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