Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Climate change puts health at risk and economists have the right prescription


PHYS ORG by Christopher Ragan And Courtney Howard, 
Wildfire smoke from Alberta descends on central
Manitoba, two provinces away. 2017. A PinP photo. 

Doctors and economists may seem like strange partners.  We spend our days working on very different problems in very different settings. But climate change has injected a common and urgent vocabulary into our work. We find ourselves agreeing both about the nature of the problem and the best solution. It is essential that we put a price on carbon pollution.  Story here.

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