A Carbon Tax Is Not A Slam Dunk
Citation (APA): Henderson, D. R. (2019). A Carbon Tax Is Not A Slam Dunk [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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Even some economists who are skeptical that global warming will do much harm often think that carbon taxes are a good idea.
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I now think I was wrong.
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my argument is that taxing carbon makes sense only if reducing carbon is the most efficient way to forestall global warming.
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British economist named Arthur Pigou.
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Harvard economics professor N. Greg Mankiw
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John Cochrane and George Shultz.
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Advocates of a carbon tax argue, correctly, that a tax is a much better way to reduce carbon usage than any system of regulations could be.
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a system of regulations or subsidies that favors one energy source over another, or one energy use over another, depends on central planners having information that they cannot possibly have.
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economists who advocate Pigovian taxes take as given that the most-efficient way to forestall global warming is to reduce the amount of carbon used.
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There are at least three important reasons to conclude that the assumption is wrong. First, cow farts.
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Second, one important technological development over the last decade has been “geo-engineering.” The idea here is to change other things in the atmosphere that are easier to change than the amount of carbon used.
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Is such a technology feasible right now? Maybe not. But if it were, it would be incredibly cheap.
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The third low-cost way to rein in global warming is by planting trees. Trees absorb and store CO2 emissions. You could call the tree-planting strategy geo-engineering, but it would count as such in a very low-tech form. According to a July 4, 2019 article in The Guardian, planting one trillion trees would be much cheaper than a carbon tax and much more effective.
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there are potentially much cheaper ways to deal with global warming than a carbon tax.
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IL MESSAGGIO
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IL MESSAGGIO
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It could, but notice that the key is not that it’s a carbon tax but that it’s a per-tree subsidy.
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the incentive to discover lower-cost solutions would be small.
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CON CARBON
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CON CARBON
