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Green Markets Won’t Save Us
Although markets are uniquely powerful mechanisms for conveying information and altering behavior, they are ultimately social systems that...
That makes them an unreliable guide for navigating a problem as large and complex as climate change.
- Katharina Pistor
- Project Syndicate
NEW YORK – How can one make wise decisions about a perpetually unknowable future?
This question is as old as humankind, but it has become existential in light of climate change.
Although there is sufficient evidence that anthropogenic climate change is already here, we cannot possibly know all the ways that it will ramify in the coming decades.
All we know is that we…