The Inflation Reduction Act could “shape the direction of the American economy, ” potentially spending twice as much as anticipated due to the popularity of the “uncapped” tax credits designed to incentivize the shift to a clean energy lifestyle. In The Climate Economy Is About to Explode, Robinson Meyer of
The task of climate rescue can feel daunting. Where do you start with the new policy, infrastructure and lifestyles urgently needed to switch humanity from wrecking to restabilizing the climate? This big switch should and could be made quickly but it’s controlled by a small switch in our heads that’s
Everyone knows that decades of international climate summits haven’t worked. Greenhouse gas emissions, concentrations and impacts all rise as if no discussion or agreement had ever been attempted. Yet climate conference agendas never include the question “why isn’t this working?”. Are big climate events doomed to fail year after year
from Stanford Innovation Review By Dara Major, Betsy Dubovsky, & Brian Byrd A billion dollars is a lot of money. A billion dollars in damage is the US government’s benchmark for measuring the relative impact of natural disasters. In the United States alone, the number of billion-dollar disaster events—from western