A carbon dividend is better than a carbon tax

Mark Paul and Anthony Underwood |23 May 2019

Climate change is the world's most urgent problem – and in the United States, the left, at least, is taking it seriously. Earlier this year, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, introduced a Green New Deal (GND) resolution, which offers a blueprint for decarbonising the US economy. But while a growing number of Democratic presidential contenders have endorsed their p...