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Leonard Pokrovski

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2026-05-22 21:31:10 -

How does carbon pricing work?
How Does Carbon Pricing Work? There is a habit in economics, especially in rooms with polished tables and filtered air, to speak about carbon as though it were an abstraction. A metric. A unit. A derivative of energy consumption. Yet carbon dioxide is physical. It leaves a tailpipe warm. It rises from a smokestack with the invisible confidence of empire. It lingers in oceans that absorb heat...

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Leonard Pokrovski

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2026-05-22 21:33:01 -

Do carbon taxes reduce emissions?
Do Carbon Taxes Reduce Emissions? The argument usually arrives disguised as arithmetic. A legislator holds up a chart, a pundit cites a gasoline price, an economist sketches a tidy curve on television. Carbon taxes, we are told, work because people respond to prices. Raise the cost of pollution and pollution declines. Elegant. Mechanical. Almost Newtonian. But carbon is not emitted by...

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Leonard Pokrovski

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2026-05-22 21:35:54 -

Should governments tax pollution?
Should Governments Tax Pollution? The river looked anesthetized. Not dead. Worse. Alive in a diminished way, as if life itself had signed a compromise agreement. I remember standing beside the Cuyahoga years after the famous fire, watching the water move under a film of industrial sheen that caught the afternoon sun like a bruise. Nearby, a father cast a fishing line with the stubborn...

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Leonard Pokrovski

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2026-05-21 19:29:59 -

What are the goals of environmental economics?
What Are the Goals of Environmental Economics? There is a moment, standing beside a river at dawn, when economics appears absurd. The river does not issue invoices. Cottonwoods do not submit quarterly earnings. Soil never sends a balance sheet to the moon. Yet every economy, every skyscraper, pension fund, semiconductor, loaf of bread, and cargo ship begins as sunlight translated through...

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Leonard Pokrovski

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2026-05-28 21:59:21 -

What do environmental economists study?
What Do Environmental Economists Study? The first time I watched a river get priced, I felt a peculiar nausea. Not because the math was wrong. The equations were elegant. The economists at the meeting were sharp, meticulous, almost surgical in the way they translated a watershed into projected agricultural yield, municipal savings, downstream flood mitigation, and avoided treatment costs....

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Leonard Pokrovski

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2026-05-22 21:27:42 -

What is a carbon tax?
What Is a Carbon Tax? A refinery in Texas exhales more carbon dioxide before dawn than a forest can absorb in months. A container ship crossing the Pacific burns bunker fuel so dense and sulfurous that, if poured into a stream, it would resemble an industrial crime scene. Yet the invoice for this damage rarely arrives. The atmosphere receives the bill. Future generations inherit the debt....

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Leonard Pokrovski

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2026-05-22 21:34:36 -

What is cap-and-trade?
What Is Cap-and-Trade? There is a moment that arrives in certain industrial cities just before dawn when the air becomes visible. Not fog. Not weather. A chemistry of exhaust, sulfur, nitrates, carbon, and microscopic particulates suspended low enough to taste. I remember standing near the ship channel outside Houston years ago while a refinery exhaled steam against a bruised sky. A worker...

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Leonard Pokrovski

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2026-05-28 21:58:25 -

What skills are needed for environmental economics?
What Skills Are Needed for Environmental Economics? A forest does not calculate the cost of its own extinction. A river does not invoice a refinery. The atmosphere, despite serving as humanity’s open sewer for two centuries, has never mailed a bill. Yet eventually, somewhere between drought maps and insurance losses, between collapsing fisheries and rising municipal debt, someone must...

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