COP21 – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:31:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Elon Musk: Only a Carbon Tax Will Accelerate the World’s Exit from Fossil Fuels — By Kirsten Korosec | Fortune https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/12/elon-musk-only-a-carbon-tax-will-accelerate-the-worlds-exit-from-fossil-fuels-by-kirsten-korosec-fortune Thu, 03 Dec 2015 15:47:30 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=19761 Elon Musk, CEO of US automotive and energy storage company Tesla, presents his outlook on climate change at the Paris-Sorbonne University in Paris on December 2, 2015. / AFP / ERIC PIERMONT        (Photo credit should read ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)

“[O]nly a carbon tax—not innovation, conservation, or renewable energy—will accelerate the transition from carbon-producing fossil fuels to sustainable energy.”

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