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We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

— Alex Steffen

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

— Elon Musk

Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.

— Richard Rogers

If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes the economic picture for fossil technologies and for the renewable technologies. It makes the renewable technologies more attractive and the fossils less attractive.

— Vinod Khosla

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

— Lamar Alexander

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

— Frances Beinecke

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

— David Suzuki

Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

— Frances Beinecke

✗Opposing Perspectives

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

— Al Gore

We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.

— David Attenborough

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

— Tyler Cowen