ESP Biography
KATHARINE GAGE, ESP Teacher
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Major: Bowdoin Earth & Oceanographic Sc College/Employer: MIT Year of Graduation: 2026 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)Z16214: Help Solve Climate Change! in Splash Fall 2025 (Nov. 22 - 23, 2025)
We know the technical changes needed for a relatively safe climate future: reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 and reduce CO2 in the air below 350 ppm by 2100. The cheapest, fairest, and most comprehensive way to address the underlying climate pollution problem is to fix the market's failure to account for the costs of pollution in prices with a solution called Carbon Fee and Dividend. The fee makes it powerful, the dividend makes it fair, and associated border adjustments will push our carbon price around the world. Congress can move us halfway to achieving our 1.5˚C warming limit goal and make the remaining work easier with this one beneficial piece of legislation.
This will fundamentally change the US economy, so there is strong resistance from those who profit from the status quo of using fossil fuels. Is it possible to break the logjam and save ourselves? Can any of us do anything to help address the most significant crisis human civilization has ever faced? Yes, together we can!
We can take effective action in this pivotal moment in history, just as people in past generations achieved women's suffrage, civil rights, and same-sex marriage through collective action movements. Ordinary people advocating together for change is our last, best hope to avoid climate catastrophe. Your part in creating the political will for a livable world begins here.
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