Komanoff: The Time Has Never Been More Right for a Carbon Tax

December 10, 2012 By Charles Komanoff

Komanoff: The Time Has Never Been More Right for a Carbon Tax (U.S. News)

Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, noted that solving climate change means undertaking a large number of seemingly small measures, like curbing emissions from automobiles, oil and gas wells, air travel, landfills, buildings and more. ‘Just because there are multiple contributors to a problem doesn’t mean we should excuse all but the top one,’ Dr. Oppenheimer said. ‘Just because a polluter’s emissions are decreasing doesn’t mean that they aren’t still far too high.’ “

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