Archive for the ‘externalities’ Tag
Link: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/08/1091736131/how-manatees-got-into-hot-water
Back in the 1970’s, manatees were close to extinction because of ruined habitats and speedboats. Over time power companies started to notice that groups of manatees were congregating around their power plants due to the warm water they produce. This episode of Planet Money discusses the unlikely partnership between environmentalists and power companies to conserve the manatee and how they make that possible. Conservation policies needed to adapt the idea that to save the manatees, the power plants also need to be saved. The warm water keeps the manatees alive but what happens when we move to more renewable energy resources? Pat Rose, a conservationist known as the “manatee man”, joins the show to explain what is going on in the manatee world today and what the future looks like.
Original Air Date: April 8, 2022
Length: 24 minutes 2 seconds
Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/13/455941812/episode-663-money-trees
Summary: The Planet Money team investigates ‘carbon offsetting’ and the good it does for the environment as well as the pros and cons that accompany it.
Original Air Date: November 16, 2015
Length: 17 minutes 52 seconds
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/25/141701559/the-tuesday-podcast-will-economic-growth-destroy-the-planet
Summary: A discussion of the question whether the environment can sustain continuous economic growth, and the impact of economic growth on the environment.
Original Air Date: October 25, 2011
Length: 21:51
Main story content begins: 3:22
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/02/14/146889446/the-tuesday-podcast-lighthouses-autopsies-and-the-federal-budget
Summary: Discussion with Charlie Wheelan, author of Naked Economics, of the role of government in provision of public goods and the definition of public goods.
Original Air Date: February 14, 2012
Length 21:49
Main story content begins: 2:16
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/07/30/128880374/the-friday-podcast-tallying-up-the-pelican-bill
Summary: A discussion of efforts to put a price on the impact of the Gulf Oil Spill by considering the value of a pelican.
Original Air Date: July 30, 2010
Length: 22:29
Main story content beings: 2:30
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