How Fossil Fuel Interests Weaponized Economists To Delay Climate Action (w/ Ben Franta)
The Climate Pod
Climate Change
i started to notice that it was the same economists again and again over over years of time, starting in the early nineties. And so i thought this was really interesting historically. A lot of academic climate economic centres in the united states use similar methodologies as this group. In those groups too, those academic groups are also funded by the oil industry. I think there's a huge question about, oh, are there certain economic paradimes? Are there certain economic modelling approaches that only provide one kind of answer? That is what we're trying to find out.
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