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Teaching Nobel award recognizes how economic forces can fight climate change

Nobel award recognizes how economic forces can fight climate change

The United Nations recently released a report that warns climate change will cause environmental crisis by 2040. It warns that we have only about 12 years to keep temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid environmental disaster in our lifetimes. Is there any hope?\n\nOne revolutionary economist has a simple plan that could actually work.\n\n

Andrew J. Hoffman and Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, University of Michigan
The Conversation

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Would putting a price on using carbon help avoid climate disaster?
STANDARDS:
RH.2 - Main Ideas, RH.3 - Historical Process, RH.8 - Evaluate Argument

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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