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How big is your carbon footprint? Do you really know? If it was taxed, you’d find out one way or another. Maybe the cost of carbon gets added on like a sales tax, or maybe the producer gets hit with additional taxes and passes the cost onto you, like a tariff. Either way, you’ll learn something. It’s an idea some Democrats have been kicking around. So has the European Union. Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, we’re going to step back and explain the carbon tax. Joining us to help with that is economist Shi-Ling Hsu, a professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of “The Case for a Carbon Tax.”
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “The 5 most important questions about carbon taxes, answered” from Vox
- A nifty map of existing carbon pricing programs around the world
- “Ahead of COP26, UN report says G-20 is failing to fight climate change” from The Washington Post
- “Disneyland ticket prices rise as much as 8%; parking up 20%” from the Los Angeles Times
- “Hey, Kid, Wanna See Some Leaked Facebook Docs?” from Gizmodo
- “Biden names Jessica Rosenworcel as first female FCC chair” from The Washington Post
- Molly’s interview with Rosenworcel on “Marketplace Tech”
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