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Assignment 2 (click here for instructions)
Articles on Global warming (pick two)
  • 12000 Scenarios for the future of the planet (12/1/22) WaPo
  • We Are Destroying our life support system
  • ​Global Warming's New Math
  • Saskia Sassen on Climate Change
  • Scientists from around the world declare climate emergency
  • 2019 Capped the World's Hottest Decade in History (WaPo 1/15/20)
  • Seven Points You need to Know About Climate Change

Articles on Impacts (pick two) 
  • Landmark UN report warns sea levels will rise faster than projected by 2100
  • ​Sea Level Rise in LA
  • Climate Change Nightmares are Already Here
  • NPR: 5 crops will be lost to climate change

Cap and Trade v Carbon Tax v Green New Deal v Divestment v Geo-engineering  (pick six),​

General
  • Greenhouse Gas Tax vs Cap and Trade
  • Memo Explains difference between Carbon Tax and Cap and Trade​​​
  • Cost Of Decarbonizing U.S. Power Grid Put At $4.5 Trillion (6/27/19, Forbes)
  • July 27 Cenk Uygur and Al Gore talk carbon tax and cap 'n trade (mp4)

Carbon Tax
  • Yellen, top pick for Treasury, sees carbon tax as a solution
  • The Problem with Putting  price on the End of the World
  • A simpler, more useful way to tax carbon 8/17/20
  • Carbon pricing is the way to rectify runaway climate change
  • Voters like taxing carbon as long as you don’t say ‘carbon tax’
  • Republican Elders Call for New National Carbon Tax
  • Carbon Tax? Yes! 
  • The carbon tax opportunity (Brookings) 5/6/20
  • How to Cut US carbon emissions by 40% in 10 years (a carbon tax)
  • Exxon and all agree re carbon tax!​

Cap and Trade
  • Cap and Trade Explained
  • Cap and trade isn't cutting it LAT
  • Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice?
  • Do Carbon Offsets Work?  WaPo 9/24/20
  • Is California a Leader or a Loaner on Cap and Trade? 
  • California Cap and Trade Faces Daunting Hurdles
  • Enviro Justice Matters in Cap and Trade
  • Cap and Trade Explained by Annie Leonard (YouTube)
  • Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it, George Monbiot

Green New Deal and a Marshall Plan
  • "Chomsky and Pollin: A Global Green New Deal Is the Only Way to Avert Disaster" 1/7/21
  • Money manager calls for climate Marshall Plan
  • The Green New Deal explained
  • The world wasn't ready for a Green New Deal in 2009. Today, it may be 
  • The Green New Deal would create nearly 30 million jobs
  • Ocasio-Cortez says we need a WW2 plan
  • "Hasan and AOC Discuss The Green New Deal" YouTube
  • 3/20/22: "After February’s Dire IPCC Report, the Green New Deal Is More Urgent Than Ever" Truthout

Divestment from fossil fuels
  • Markets are flying blind on climate change 9/16/20
  • Global investors develop net zero investing framework​
  • An Open Letter to the CalSTRS Board
  • Climate Lawsuits Increase Risk to CalPERS Portfolio
  • 42 faith groups in 14 countries announce divestment from fossil fuels
  • 11/25/20: New Yorker, McKibben, "Climate Crisis: the banks"
  • 12/9/20: 12/9/20: NYT, McKibben, "You Should Have Listened, New York Tells Big Oil"
  • 8/24/20: "Major investment firm dumps Exxon, Chevron and Rio Tinto stock"
  • Two Economies Collide Divestment_October 2022

Geo-engineering the planet
  • Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, McKibben 11/22/22
  • DW: Geo-engineering 10/20: 42 minutes (YouTube)
  • Geoengineer the Planet? More Scientists Now Say It Must Be an Option
  • Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program 
  • University of California TV: What is Geoengineering and Can It Save the Planet? (youtube 3 mins)
  • Geoengineering carries ‘large risks’ for the natural world, studies show
  • A Start-Up’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky
  • The rotten core of the new IPCC report (YouTube)

Command and Control
  • EPA: Economics of Climate Change
  • Britannica: Command and Control Legislation
  • A 'law of nature' - The command-and-control approach
  • Economic Incentives: EPA
  • The Successful International Response to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
  • The right climate for central planning

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Sample Student paper from Fall, 2020
Agricanto library of climate change articles by topic area. 
DW: "Why carbon offsets are worse than you think", 15 mins
10/1/21: the Economist. "How do carbon markets work?" 10 mins
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