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Here Comes Solar Energy – NYTimes.com
Posted by coby on November 7, 2011
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Paul Krugman has some optimistic economic commentary on solar energy in the NYT today, titled “Here comes solar energy“. It can not be emphasized enough, his points about indirect subsidies to dirty energy sources in the form of shifting the indirect social costs (health and environmental damage) of coal and fracking onto the public. The…
Anti-green economics – Paul Krugman
Posted by coby on May 1, 2009 It`s kind of nice to hear an expert in the field making the same observation I often have about the economic arguments that swirl around the climate policy debates. Specifically, opponents to mitigation policy have no trouble relying on the magic of the market and technology to rescue us from any possible difficulty climate change…