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To: FJB who wrote (1512342)	1/10/2025 7:40:11 PM
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Good find, Ottmar Endenhofer is one of those guys you never hear about that pulls all the strings, he is more honest than the average Marxist. Ottmar Georg Edenhofer is a German economist who is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on climate change policy, environmental and energy policy, and energy economics. His work has been heavily cited. Edenhofer says that his interest in philosophy and economics was influenced by his readings of the works of Henry George, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and John Dewey. Regarding climate change he says: "Denying out and out that climate change is a problem for humanity, as some cynics do, is an unethical, unacceptable position.": Edenhofer is a proponent of carbon pricing. He points out that both cap-and-trade and a direct carbon tax can be implemented to reduce greenhouse emissions and encourage innovation to preserve the climate. He feels strongly that moving the global economy to a low-carbon threshold requires huge increases in the use of renewable energy across all economic sectors. Edenhofer is a strongly anti-nuclear and has advised Angela Merkel on the German nuclear phase-out. Edenhofer offered this in a speech he made November 2010 "....one has to free oneself(from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth..."