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Free Market Solutions to Climate Change Aren't 'Realistic'

by Carla Santos Skandier

Many of the proposals to help curb climate change fail to address the long incentivization of fossil fuel extraction. Incentives should be moved toward production and use of renewables if any valuable change is to happen. 

Publication date: 2019-04-05
Parent publication: Common Dreams
Publication URL: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/06/free-market-solutions-climate-change-arent-realistic
by Carla Santos Skandier

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