Killing Cobras Won’t Solve Climate Change

The economic principle behind carbon credits failed in 1865.

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For the last few decades there’s been a push for energy efficiency. Energy efficiency was meant to be a stopgap, a way for the world to slow down climate change until replacements for fossil fuels reached parity. Yet for all the efficiency we’ve enjoyed in cars, computers, and even energy…