The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call external costs, like the health effects of air and water pollution. – Jeff Goodell
Geoengineering – the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earths climate to offset global warming – is a nightmare fix for climate change. – Jeff Goodell
In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. – Jeff Goodell
Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution – warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain – are even more deadly here. – Jeff Goodell