Not exact matches
I've thought about this topic a lot, and I keep
coming back
to the
same annoying
conclusion: lots of families spend all of their income (or more), and when they realize this is a
problem, they try
to cut back on small luxuries when they should be thinking about housing and car expenses — the elephants in the room.
Somewhat independently, schools and lawmakers have
come to the
same conclusion: The old models of student assessment are out of step with the needs of the 21st - century workplace and society, with their emphasis on hard -
to - measure skills such as creativity,
problem solving, persistence, and collaboration.
I was convinced that climate change was going
to be a big
problem thirty years ago (it was called global warming then) and anyone with a fair understanding of science would have
come to the
same conclusion.
However, if you see a completely different species, say an Australian Black Swan Cygnus atratus, on the
same lake, then you might
come to a different and more rapid
conclusion; but in order
to do so you have
to know one kind of swan from another and broadly speaking, I'm not sure Paul MacRae does, and that is the real
problem with taking this book seriously.
Our initial work was not the final word on the matter, but it stimulated follow - up research by an economist from the UK, Mark Freeman, who together with colleagues Gernot Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser from Harvard's Kennedy School, published a more extensive mathematical analysis of the
problem that
came to roughly the
same conclusions.
A year ago, Carbon Tracker Initiative looked at the
same problem as OCI and
came to a different
conclusion.
The
problem is that the fossil fuel industry has
come to the very
same conclusion, and delay — of carbon pricing and renewable energy incentives — has become top of its agenda too.