Whatever form you believe climate change policies/solutions should take — technical, economic/regulatory, a mixture, or something else altogether — it's time to drop the prehistoric notion that we can either have a thriving economy OR a healthy environment. The two are not antithetical, incompatible, mutually exclusive, diametrically opposed, etc. Whatever superlative you prefer, the truth is we can have our cake and eat it, too. Here are some very smart people from the Harvard Kennedy School explaining why they've staked their careers on it. I found the discussion about successful cap-and-trade programs, starting at about 28:50 in the video, such as the Reagan administration policy to phase leaded gasoline out of the marketplace, particularly interesting.
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