#472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming

Note: Today's show is a re-run. It originally ran in July 2013.Climate change seems like this complicated, intractable problem. But maybe it doesn't have to be.On today's show, we talk to a couple economists about a very simple idea that could solve the climate-change problem: tax carbon emissions.A carbon tax could be paired with cuts in the income tax. And it would drive down emissions without picking winners or losers, and without creating complicated regulations.