#472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming

Planet Money

• Episode: #472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming
• Website: Planet Money
• Feed URL: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289
• Published: 2014-06-04 20:54

Note: Today's show is a re-run. It originally ran in July 2013. Climate change seems like this complicated, intractable problem. But maybe it doesn't have to be. On today's show, we talk to a couple economists about a very simple idea that could solve the climate-change problem: tax carbon emissions. A carbon tax could be paired with cuts in the income tax. And it would drive down emissions without picking winners or losers, and without creating complicated regulations.