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Michael Specter at the New Yorker writes one of the best pieces I’ve read on the dilemmas we face as we try to address global warming. I highly encourage you to read the article.
The piece covers Britain’s Tesco, a Costco/Sam’s Club-like company, that is attempting to provide carbon footprint information next to the price of the item being sold. While describing Tesco’s carbon accounting methods, he drifts into a lot of fascinating discussions about food and the history of cap-and-trade in a way that can only be done by a columnist for the New Yorker.
Here are just a few money quotes:
Stephen Pacala, the director of Princeton University’s Environmental Institute, recently estimated that half of the world’s carbon-dioxide emissions come from just seven hundred million people, about ten per cent of the population.
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