{"id":5759,"date":"2015-09-02T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2015-09-02T06:06:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T13:06:46","slug":"could-a-carbon-tax-prevent-the-catastrophic-consequences-of-climate-change-that-obama-fears-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=5759","title":{"rendered":"Could A Carbon Tax Prevent The Catastrophic Consequences Of Climate Change That Obama Fears? &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;A broad-based carbon tax has far more support among academic economists and think-tankers than politicians. But despite its political problems, such a levy has important benefits. Reducing demand for carbon fuels by directly raising their price is simpler and far more efficient than regulatory curbs.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/beltway\/2015\/09\/01\/could-a-carbon-tax-prevent-the-catastrophic-consequences-of-climate-change-that-obama-fears\/\">Could A Carbon Tax Prevent The Catastrophic Consequences Of Climate Change That Obama Fears? &#8211; Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;A broad-based carbon tax has far more support among academic economists and think-tankers than politicians. But despite its political problems, such a levy has important benefits. Reducing demand for carbon fuels by directly raising their price is simpler and far more efficient than regulatory curbs.&#8217; via Could A Carbon Tax Prevent The Catastrophic Consequences Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}