Microeconomics (Christopher T.S. Ragan) (z-lib.org)

Second, even if we ignore the challenge of global population growth, it is likely that per capita GDP will continue to rise over ...

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energy used per dollar of real GDP has fallen by about 1 percent annually over the past 40 years. Similar declines have been obs ...

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The Substitution Approach: Alternative Energy The burning of fossil fuels is an extremely efficient and economical method of pro ...

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The large-scale expansion of hydro power, for example, relies on being able to find enough new locations appropriate to the damm ...

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This facility in Estevan, Saskatchewan, is designed to capture and store carbon dioxide. If the technology proves to be sufficie ...

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reservoirs at thousands of locations around the world could accommodate the pressurized greenhouse gases that the world will con ...

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Significant Policy Challenges If climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen, then it may also represe ...

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The developing countries respond by pointing out that the vast majority of the greenhouse gases emitted over the past century ha ...

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most countries, including Canada, are considering implementing over the near future to achieve these targets. Climate change is ...

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As we saw earlier in this chapter, two policies would place a price on GHG emissions: an emissions tax and a cap-and-trade syste ...

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