
The Problems with Green Finance (w/ Adrienne Buller)
The Climate Pod
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Carbon Pricing
A lot of these are basically predicated on big assumptions about the way that markets work, in their ability to solve problems. Carbon pricing schemes have delivered like, fractions of a % of overall omissions reductions over their tenure. A lot of gains it has made are f temporary because they derive from shifts from coal to fossil gas. And so all of them, i think my big concern is that even if we have little gains, we'll spend years, you know, and a ton of effort,. when in reality, they're mostly, i think, a distraction from what we need to be doing.
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