America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due

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the climate doesn’t care about our history or our politics.

America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due

lil Ben Shapiro climate change flip okay

One thing that could help us close that remaining gap is a carbon tax—something universal, fair, and relatively simple. Paired with positive incentives for renewables, a price on carbon creates a negative incentive to generate emissions. I recently tuned in to a training session from Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which made a strong case not just for im... See more

America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due

taxing households so beyond political suicide — adding yet another tax that will impact citizens rather than corporations — and is exactly the sort of thinking that the climate lobby will fail for

Last week, the U.N.’s Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) issued a 20-page document stating that children have the right to sue nations over climate change.

America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due

i should probably read some of these cases including Held v. Montana — i wonder what the standard is research-wise and impact-wise to win a case like this

the first children’s climate trial took place in the U.S. when a group of 16 young people sued Montana for violating their constitutional rights, including rights to equal protection, dignity, liberty, health and safety, and public trust, all predicated on their right to “a clean and healthful environment” as enshrined in the state constitution. Th... See more

America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due

In Hawaii, where insured property losses exceed $3 billion dollars, homeowners face rising insurance premiums as a result of climate disasters. Californians are familiar with this pain: State Farm and Allstate have already stopped offering homeowner policies in the state due to a combination of government-imposed rate caps, expensive reinsurance, a... See more