I Don't Want to Wear a Mask

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I've noticed that last week there were some people saying, i've got vaccinated, but i'm going to wear my mask anyway, cause i don't want people to think i'm a republican. Well, that's another example of politicization. And why that's a nothing is puzzling to me. Why is that conservative in ha sort of traditional conserbirking conservatism? It's interesting how i taking up smoking again as an example. We're used to very strong policies on smoking. Ow, many institutions, colleges, universities and others r are asking themselves, should they require their employees to get vaccinated? An yaleis decided to do that. But you say, well, ok

In this conversation, based on the book The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World, Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in environmental economics Dr. Nordhaus explains how and why “green thinking” could cure many of the world’s most serious problems — from global warming to pandemics. Solving the world’s biggest problems requires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us. For carbon emissions and other environmental damage, this means ensuring that those responsible pay their full costs rather than continuing to pass them along to others, including future generations. Nordhaus describes a new way of green thinking that would help us overcome our biggest challenges without sacrificing economic prosperity, in large part by accounting for the spillover costs of economic collisions. In a discussion that ranges from the history of the environmental movement to the Green New Deal, Nordhaus explains how rethinking economic efficiency, sustainability, politics, profits, taxes, individual ethics, corporate social responsibility, finance, and more would improve the effectiveness and equity of our society.