What Does the Trump Victory Mean for Climate Change Policy?
Robert Stavins:
What Does the Trump Victory Mean for Climate Change Policy?: Those of you who have read my previous essay at this blog, “This is Not a Time for Political Neutrality” (October 9, 2016), know that my greatest concerns about a Trump presidency (then a possibility, now a certainty), were not limited to environmental policy, but rather were “about what a Trump presidency would mean for my country and for the world in realms ranging from economic progress to national security to personal liberty,” based on his “own words in a campaign in which he substituted impulse and pandering for thoughtful politics” … and “built his populist campaign on false allegations about others, personal insults of anyone who disagrees with him, and displays of breathtaking xenophobia, veiled racism, and unapologetic sexism.”
That’s a broad indictment, to be sure, but whatever real expertise I may have is actually limited to environmental, resource, and energy economics and policy, and so that has and will continue to be the real focus of this blog, “An Economic View of the Environment.” With that in mind, I return today from last month’s brief immersion in partisan politics to discuss climate change policy.
Yesterday, an editor at The New York Times asked me to write a 500-word essay giving my view of what the Trump victory will mean for climate policy. This morning, my very brief essay was published under the headline, “Goodbye to the Climate.” Given the brevity of the piece, it does not touch on many issues and subtleties (I come back to that at the end of today’s blog post)…
Source: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/11/what-does-the-trump-victory-mean-for-climate-change-policy.html
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