September 12, 2024
Climate change law and policy have been influenced heavily by economic thinking. This article uses two manifestations of that thinking - the social cost of carbon and carbon offsets - to consider the possibility that moral and political imagination have been constrained by the dominance of narrow economic templates for addressing the climate crisis. The article then introduces two policy proposals - carbon upsets and inequality reduction as a mitigation measure - that can be implemented comfortably within those templates, but that offer the prospect of catalyzing more dramatic shifts in thought.
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