This project will work to develop a robust analytical and policy basis for
reforming producer subsidies, developing new supply - constraining measures, and engaging international regimes to overcome long - standing implicit
biases against supply - side climate policies.
A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects
against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation
bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system
reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.