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The False Choice Between Economic Growth and Combatting Climate Change

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The New Yorker

Publication Date
2019-02-05

In 1974, the economist William Nordhaus described the transition from a “cowboy economy” to a “spaceship economy.” In the former, he wrote, “we could afford to use our resources profligately,” and “the environment could be used as a sink without becoming fouled.

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