We normally think of the people responding to economic surveys as fairly conservative. Those who monitor the economy or take an interest in the economy are not considered the most radical thinkers. Such surveys usually ask stock questions about the overall performance of the economy, and our latest study did just that.
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Despite pledges such as the 2008 promise by the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations to work to cut global carbon emissions in half by 2050 under the Kyoto Protocol, no meaningful international climate agreement has ever been reached, says Bjorn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School.
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Politicians and commentators are understandably pessimistic about the chances of an international deal on carbon cuts emerging from the United Nations summit in Mexico this December. Nothing has been resolved since the Copenhagen climate talks fell apart last year. Fortunately, recent research points to a smarter way to tackle climate change.
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Despite all of the innovations and investments in solar, wind, energy efficiency, and the smart grid, the reality of cutting carbon emissions out of the U.S. energy portfolio will rely on natural gas. A report released out of MIT today and reported by the New York Times estimates that natural gas will one day grow from 20 percent of the energy market in the U.S. to 40 percent.
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FAR SOUTHWEST Imagine a small, self-sustaining city of little more than 100 acres. All the energy is generated there, all the storm water and sewage is processed there and even some of the food is grown there.
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