{"id":1760,"date":"2009-12-13T08:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-politics-of-cap-and-trade\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:03","slug":"the-politics-of-cap-and-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/the-politics-of-cap-and-trade.php","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Cap and Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion at the New York Times's <a href=\"http:\/\/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/27\/obamas-climate-goals-vs-the-senates\/?scp=1&amp;sq=room%20for%20debate&amp;st=cse\">Room for Debate<\/a>.&nbsp; My bottom line:<\/p><blockquote><p>Any policy to reduce emissions may be more costly than the emissions themselves, given the unintended consequences of such policies (e.g., pushing carbon-emitting activity to countries with lower carbon prices).<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b243d_6379328854053402400-6362293651194736908?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion at the New York Times's Room for Debate.&nbsp; My bottom line:Any policy to reduce emissions may be more costly than the emissions themselves, given the unintended consequences of such policies (e.g., pushing carbon-emitting activity to countries with lower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/the-politics-of-cap-and-trade.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}