Often, environmental challenges are the result of externalities—costs of a good or service that are not borne by the producer … More
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Ideological blinders affect both extremes of the climate debate
Climate change challenges conservative and libertarian instincts in a way that makes it harder to believe the evidence, no matter how strong it is. Climate evangelists likewise tend to embrace science and evidence when it confirms their prior political views and reject it otherwise. For progressives and big-government liberals, climate change is easy to accept to the extent it seems to call out for a big-government solution. But even among climate evangelicals, where science and their prior political commitments conflict, politics usually win.
Republicans propose a carbon tax
Last week, several prominent Republicans pitched a carbon tax to the Trump administration. The plan has four pillars, meant to … More
Politics above principle: environmentalists against a carbon tax
Lost in the much bigger election day surprise was news that a Washington state referendum to adopt a carbon tax, … More