Is There a Financial Debt?

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We have technology to day that can take carbon out of the atmosphere. But in we could be using it at a much greater scale, he says. The us would owe 50 trillion dollars - about half of all global wealth today. He thinks this is not likely to happen in the near term but should start planning for it by second half of century.

While world leaders have descended on Glasgow to try to figure out how to slow emissions in the future, New York magazine’s David Wallace-Wells argues rich countries like the United States should also atone for their polluting past.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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