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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Brenna Walsh factors in the social cost of carbon when fighting fossil fuel dependency
Description: Brenna Walsh is the Energy Coordinator at the Ecology Action Center. She’s made a career out of bringing different communities together to strengthen and accelerate climate policy and action. Walsh is focused squarely on understanding what has worked and not worked in the past and on exploring new initiatives to build climate resistant communities.
In this interview I aimed to get a deeper sense of the economic reasons behind the policy measure that’s usually referred to as a “carbon tax.” Brenna breaks down how that measure of carbon pricing is just one part of a whole array of emerging...