MFSA Great Debate: Climate Policy

In this debate jointly presented by the MIT Free Speech Alliance and MIT Open Discourse Society, two teams of climate scientists and policy experts will debate the following resolution:

Resolved, The total cost of global net-zero decarbonization by the latter half of this century is well worth the projected global benefits.

Arguing for the resolution are Kerry Emanuel, MIT Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science and co-founder of MIT’s Lorenz Center, and Robert Pindyck, Professor of Economics and Finance at MIT Sloan and past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Arguing against the resolution are Steven Koonin, PhD ‘75, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Under Secretary for Science and provost at CalTech, and Mark Mills, Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s school of engineering. Moderating the debate is John Tomasi, President of Heterodox Academy.

The debate is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served in the Tang Center lobby beforehand.

For more information about the debate, participants, and co-sponsoring organizations, visit mitfreespeech.org/ClimateDebate.

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