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A record number of investors are kicking fossil fuels to the curb and investing in clean energy. 
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He explains that tackling climate change won't harm the economy, but will save it. But we need a new measure of economic health, much as RFK argued in 1968.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made a similar argument in an an op-ed in the New York Times last month, arguing that a carbon tax is needed to help avert “The Coming Climate Crash.”
Rubin’s point is that we need a new GDP “that incorporates the impact of greenhouse gas emissions.” Instead of simply tallying up “the goods and services produced by our economy” we need a GDP that can “account for the present and future damage resulting from the emissions involved in producing those goods and services.”
His bottom line: “We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment — or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc. And a major step toward changing the debate is to change the way we measure the health of our economy, our fiscal conditions, and the health of individual companies and businesses to better reflect the world as it will be.”….
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Californians are likely to pay more for gasoline, electricity, food and new homes — and to feel their lives jolted in myriad other ways — because their state broadly expanded its war on climate change this summer. The ambitious new goals will require complex regulations on an unprecedente
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