This pollution regulation framework offered by environmentalists for dealing with global warming is, for many, a reassuring one. For 15 years it has provided policymakers, the media, and the public with a mental model for understanding how such a massive problem like climate change could be solved in an organic way by the market, perhaps the most powerful institution ever created by human beings.
There's just one problem: it won't work.
Today at Grist, we respond to reviews of Break Through by Carl Pope, Bill McKibben, and others here.
