Adrienne Buller, "The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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Is There a Market Based Approach to Carbon Pricing?
Efficiency is the most cost effective way to reduce carbon amissians or to resolve various problems. But when you're facing a non trivial, catastrophic threat, it seems to me that making efficient or priority requires a lot of justification. A universal carbon price doesn't really discriminate by a definition,. It's a universal price on carbon. And so it doesn't really care whether you are alite consumer or whether you are someone who fundamentally needs to heat their home. So why do these companies like anguard and black rock can tell us what does that matter for environmental crisis? Yes! We should be focusing on things that are almost inimical to a market base approach which is like priorit
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