climate change

On the surface the Copenhagen summit was about cutting carbon emissions, but the situation reminds me of Robin Hanson’s well known countrarian notion that politics is not about policy: Civics teachers talk as if politics is about policy, that politics is our system for choosing policies to deal with common problems.  But as Tyler Cowen suggests, real [...]

Tagged as: china, climate, climate change, copenhagen, environment, geopolitics, negotiation, obama, power, signaling

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