The ability to anticipate a delayed gain is considered cognitively challenging since it requires not only the capacity to control a direct impulse, but also to assess the gain’s beneficial value relative to the costs associated with having to wait. Such abilities were believed to be restricted to a few large brained animals until recent […]
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Climate change treaties wrongheaded, argues radical plan to lock-up fossil fuels
An intriguing analysis of fossil fuel trading and environmental policy shows that rather than attempting to limit consumption via pollution permits, taxation, and climate change treaties; buying coal, oil and other dirty fossil fuel deposits and then leaving them in the ground is a far more effective way to fight climate change. Study author Bard […]