1.What is the difference between the early days of the oil business and today? watch this video to answer this question :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQyHtZLLN6M
2. read this and answer the question :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
Find an example of where a carbon tax has been implemented, then have a title : "Carbon tax in ......" filling in the ellipses with the location of your carbon tax report. Summarize the salient points of interest on this implementain. (Note: The EU is far ahead of the US in this policy area.)
some useful notes for question #2:
he two basic tools available to governments to correct market failure with regards to environmental policy: a command-and-control approach, or an incentives-based approach. The incentives based approach is favored, because it can be shown, quite convincingly, that even from a theoretical perspective that it is much more economically efficent than thecommand-and-control approach. The dual approaches have been empirically tested enough over the past few decades with actual implementations to back up this theoretical conclusion.
There are two incentive-based approaches to limiting greenhouse gases: a cap-and-trade approach or a carbon tax approach. Both are important to learn about, but unfortunately, the text does not even mention acarbon tax.At the moment, passing federal legislation to support a carbon tax seems politically impossible; witness that even thementionof global climate change has not surfaced once in the presidential campaign in 2012
3.AsH. erectuspopulations spread out over the African continent, they continued to evolve in response to environmental conditions leading to very noticeable differences between the various populations. Todayscientists view
H. erectus,as the most successful hominid to date.
Explain why this is and how this was accomplished?