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Climate capitalism: How market forces and policies align
- gardenfelder 3y ago>Barely a day goes by when news headlines do not feature some disastrous extreme weather event made more extreme by climate change. And because the laws of the physical world are immutable, we can be certain it’s going to get worse as we continue to burn fossil fuels and grow the load of greenhouse gases that heat the planet.
- pauldenton 3y agoWhen China got very into environmentalism I became very cynical of it. It seems like Chinese elites are just corrupting Western officials. Like the Soviets did in my parents time.
- r9295 3y agoMaybe they also stand to lose significantly as the climate change gets worse?
- tuatoru 3y agoSo the book is called Climate Capitalism, but the examples all show how centrally directed big government policy is what actually made the difference. Climate dirigisme would be more accurate.