Why Global Warming Is Different and Harder Than Previous Environmental Problems

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Why Global Warming Is Different and Harder Than
Previous Environmental Problems

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• Theres a consensus among leading scientists that
  global warming is caused by human activity.
  Whatif anythingshould we do about it?
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• JEFFREY BALL Global warming is fundamentally
  harder than past environmental problems. Unlike
  smog or litter or dirty rivers, its global, long
  term and largely invisible. The upshot Solving
  global warming is the top priority of essentially
  no one (save a relative handful of scientists and
  environmental activists).

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• That suggests two basic principles for fighting
  global warming. First, the steps that will be
  most politically feasible are those that happen
  to curb greenhouse-gas emissions in the process
  of doing something that more people care more
  about cleaning the air, or producing jobs or
  making money. Second, in contrast to the approach
  taken thus far, the steps that make the most
  sense are the ones that are most economically
  efficient.
• A third basic principle is equally important
  Technological breakthroughs are hard to predict.
  So its unwise to ground any strategy to curb
  global warming on the expectation that a
  particular technology will get big enough and
  cheap enough to be a main fix.

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• Those three basic principles are pretty general.
  They point to two more-specific approaches
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• Focus on the biggest sources of greenhouse-gas
  emissions. That includes a handful of gases
  produced in industrial processes that, pound for
  pound, pack a far heavier global-warming punch
  than does carbon dioxide. As for carbon dioxide,
  it means focusing on China, the worlds biggest
  emitter and a place that has an incentive to
  clean up its energy system that most people see
  as far more compelling than global warming dirty
  air.

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• And when governments around the world spend money
  to promote cleaner energy, its worth structuring
  those subsidies to reward not specific
  predetermined technologies, but whichever
  technologies over time end up able to produce the
  most environmental gain at the lowest cost.

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