NEW YORK ¨C Everything from seat belts and condoms to health care and bank bailouts invites riskier behavior, or what economists call ¡°moral hazard.¡±
Even the most justified and well-meaning policy interventions can have unintended ¡ª and undesired ¡ª consequences. In the 1960s and 1970s, many environmentalists to nuclear power because its promise of cheap, limitless energy ran counter to their own push for .
The debate continues today. Which climate technologies deserve our support and which are distractions that could lull us into complacency with the false promise of a silver bullet? The list of climate ¡°solutions¡± is constantly expanding and now includes everything from to , from to to , and ¡ª of course ¡ª and .
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