
13: Could a New Global Currency Help Avert the Climate Crisis?
Pricing Nature
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Carbon Pricing
Carbon pricing says doing good work is free, but if you do bad stuff, you got to pay. Anyone could earn one unit of the currency by removing one ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or preventing it from going up in the first place. But doesn't traditional carbon pricing value the preservation of nature already? Vanessa notes that there are really important differences between paying some one to do good work and charging them for doing harmful or bad work.
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