EP 952 Have Our Solutions to the Climate Crisis Been Misguided?

 Have you ever started working on a puzzle and realized you had the whole picture wrong and needed to start over again?  Well, our guest thinks that we’ve been so focused on ‘managing tons’ of emissions, with regulatory and accounting nightmares like offsets, that we’ve lost sight of the goal of developing a new economic system built on a different energy platform.  Given the political muscle of the oil, now energy, companies, the desire to move incrementally into more green energy alternatives may be understandable.  This moment, though, may be the time, with the numbers getting even worse, to jettison the old model of multilateral agreements and start putting green energy asset holders in the driver’s seat.  It’s not an easy assignment, but Jessica Green, our guest, a Professor in the Department of Political Science and in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto and the author of “Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions are Failing and How to Fix Them,” explains why the transition in thinking is critical at this stage.

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