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19 - Selected Policy Implications

from Part III - Toward Rational Climate Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2021

Jason S. Johnston
Affiliation:
University of Virginia Law School
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In this concluding chapter, I set out what may called the bottom line conclusions that I believe follow from the explanation and analysis provided by previous chapters of this book. These conclusions consist of recommendations for institutional responses to three fundamental problems of climate change: how to facilitate efficient adaptation to changing climate; how to curb present-day CO2 emissions while minimizing the present-day environmental harms and the unfair, regressive costs imposed on today’s poor; and, finally, what to do about the climate science advocacy industry that has produced some very interesting science, but also succeeded in moralizing scientific disagreement in a counterproductive and indeed dangerous way. My proposals follow logically from the analysis in previous chapters. I make no claim that and frankly know of no method for determining whether any of my proposals are politically feasible.

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Climate Rationality
From Bias to Balance
, pp. 562 - 587
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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