The climate change discussions fail once more as the Doha summit ends disappointingly. The only achievement was an extension of the Kyoto protocol.
The climate change discussions fail once more as the Doha summit ends disappointingly. The only achievement was an extension of the Kyoto protocol.
Rather than capping emissions and pricing carbon, our focus ought instead to be on making clean energy cheaper through public-private investments in technology innovation and deployment.
The roots of liberal policy failure are intertwined with the dark side of scientific rationality. It’s not the rationality itself that’s the problem, but rather its detachment from a larger social, moral, and historical context.
Now, you may be thinking ‘this is all the doing of the oil companies, using their influence, power, and battalions of lawyers to block important air emissions standards.’ But this is only partly true.