Do glitzy awards like the Earthshot Prize actually help fight climate change?
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The Impact of Innovation Prizes on Climate Change
Celebrities are using their outsized voices and platforms to highlight solutions to the climate crisis. Mark says prizes alone will not actually change anything because what we need is to get rid of fossil fuels from the energy mix as soon as possible. It needs governments to regulate, to incentivize, to tax and allow us to move to renewables as quick as possible. But how do you incentivize people to vote the right way? HowDo you incentivize governments to go? Oh, yes, that's a vote winner. Let's have a bit of rasmataz.
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