A remarkable 8000-word piece by Michael Specter in this week’s New Yorker examines carbon footprints: how they can be measured; and how cost can be apportioned. Carbon dioxide, he writes, has become:
‘a strange but powerful new currency, difficult to evaluate yet impossible to ignore.’
How counting the true cost of cheap food could make a better world
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What we pay for food and other goods doesn’t reflect the environmental and
social damage they cause. But a radical new approach to economics could
change that
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