There's a different type of economics attached to this issue, and it's social capital. It's the idea that people have to first, believe, second, believe that action is necessary with some type of urgency. And then, third, punish those who will not participate in being the solution. Carbon really is carrying a cost until we incorporate it into our economic system. We have a socialized system, which is kind of ironic for most people,. cause people think all those climate solutions are socialized. No, no, no. Our current system is socialized because we, all us, as taxpayers and insurance owners and home owners and people who who a suffer the impacts of fossil fulus
What solutions exist to fix climate change? On this Earth Day, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer Qs about real-world solutions and aspects of climate change you might not be thinking about, with atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe, PhD.
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