Our climate change âEarthshotâ
Updated April 27, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Federal âcarbon cashbackâ policy would be lever for change
I loved the piece by L. Rafael Reif, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about how our academic institutions can and should contribute to climate solutions (âThe âsuper wicked problemâ of climate change is our Earthshot,â Opinion, April 19).
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This federal âcarbon cashbackâ policy (tax fossil fuels and give the revenue back to the public in equal cash payments) would create the overarching economic context that would drive much of what Reif mentions: personal, organizational, and institutional behavioral change, as well as needed innovations in efficiency and, potentially, carbon removal. The problem is still âsuper wickedâ (what Reif describes as one that is âenormously complex [and] that has no single right answer and no clear finish line