NATS 1760 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Acid Rain, Uniformitarianism
17 Jun 2017
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Key point: don"t tell people how to reduce emissions, but give them incentive to do so and let them figure it out. Big emitters have permit to emit given amount of so2. If one firm docent use all its allocation, can sell that room to others that pollute more. Government also buys credits and retires them, meaning total so2 emissions drop. For acid rain works really well, because applied to usa and canada only; similar legal frameworks, so no cheating. Recall prins and rayner s point: borrowing treaty process from nukes, so2, cfcs relies on implicit analogy with them and co2. But co2 is not all bad; energy use can be good, and fossil fuels are currently uniquely energy-rich. Very little talk about adaptation to acc, because: assumed analogy of ghgs to evil nukes /so2/cfcs. cant adapt to evil- have to eliminate. Tendency to moralize about pollution: don"t take pressure off evil polluters; don"t sell out.
