How Fossil Fuel Interests Weaponized Economists To Delay Climate Action (w/ Ben Franta)
The Climate Pod
How Did the Economists Influence Climate Action?
Every time there would be an international climate meeting, the industry would hire these economists to pump out another study saying the same thing. And it sort of just became conventional wisdom after a while that climate action is like, really expensive - even thoas they're based on shoddy models. So we have seen unbelievable levels of slowing things down, nd delay and delay,. so that now, you know, i mean, it's 30 years later, and now we really have to move quickly in order to avoid really serious catastrophe. I think, yes, we've got a huge international agreement, or no negotiations, coming up. We've got cop 26 america. Are you seeing fossil fuel
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