Tag Archives: climate

How our economy is like an out of control AI

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Warwick Smith

By Warwick Smith | 8 September 2019, 12:30pm First published at Independent Australia Humans, individually, can be incredibly brilliant but collectively we’re often puzzlingly stupid. To take a simple, uncontroversial example, we know that forests are critical for our survival. … Continue reading →

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A failure of collective intelligence

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Warwick Smith

By Warwick Smith An essay I wrote has won second prize in New Philosopher magazine’s latest writer’s prize and has been published in the magazine. As I did with my last New Philosopher essay, I’ll probably publish this in another … Continue reading →

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The simple approach to carbon

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Warwick Smith

By Warwick Smith First published in The Canberra Times and other Fairfax newspapers. What is fee and dividend carbon pricing? Carbon fee and dividend is a model for pricing climate pollutants where a fee is charged on producers of emissions, … Continue reading →

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China’s ETS will boost Turnbull’s chances of shifting Coalition policy – The Drum

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Warwick Smith

OPINION By Warwick Smith Originally published by the ABC at The Drum. Posted Mon at 4:19pm PHOTO: A woman rides her bicycle past a coal power station in Beijing. (David Gray, file photo: Reuters) It would be a mistake to … Continue reading →

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Abbott’s love of coal is holding us back on emissions targets – The Drum

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Warwick Smith

Originally published at The Drum (ABC). By Warwick Smith Posted 11 Aug 2015, 4:23pm A larger emissions reduction target would have come at very little additional cost to GDP, but it would have involved the loss of jobs in the … Continue reading →

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Article at The Drum on tax and dividend carbon pricing

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Warwick Smith

Carbon price round two: let’s get it right this time By Warwick Smith Originally published at ABC’s The Drum Posted Fri 29 Aug 2014 Photo: A tax and dividend system could quickly result in a price high enough for renewable … Continue reading →

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Brown coal Victoria’s economic saviour. Really? Are they serious?

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Warwick Smith

The Victorian Minister for State Development, Peter Ryan, spoke in State Parliament: Victoria has one of the world’s most extensive brown coal deposits and the government is committed to maximising the opportunities to develop this resource in support of economic … Continue reading →

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