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How Fossil Fuel Interests Weaponized Economists To Delay Climate Action (w/ Ben Franta)

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Do We Really Want Philip Morris Funding Our Public Health Research?

i want to dig in on that recent paper that you just published, the papers called weaponizing economics, big oil, economic consultance and climate policy delay. And the paper tells the story of charles river associates, this economic firm that was hired by american petroleum industry,. The reports favored sically not implementing policies that might reduce fossil fuel use. So that has been a massive conflict of interest that exists at, you know, harvard, stand ford, columbia, university, all over the place.

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