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Working Assets founder Peter Barnes discusses the root of the carbon emissions problem: a market failure in establishing the cost of air pollution and a government failure in subsidizing the "very behavior that we need to be stopping."
Working Assets founder Peter Barnes discusses his proposal to limit carbon emissions by capping the fossil fuels supply, thus "catching it where it comes in."
Working assets founder Peter Barnes explains how his "cap and dividend" plan would work "kind of like an economic stimulus check" and how it would reward Americans for not burning carbon.