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The once and future carbon tax

Enthusiasm for carbon pricing was misguided 15 years ago — but its time will come!

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Matthew Yglesias
Feb 23, 2023
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These days I find myself very close, intellectually, to the positions on climate and energy articulated by the Breakthrough Institute. When I had some downtime last fall at their annual Ecomodernism conference and wanted to know more about the group’s history, I found an insightful quote about the group from a review of their 2007 book, “Break Through: …

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