【考研英语】(新)题源外刊第33期应对气候变化的一项大胆新方案…(考研英语新题型怎么做)

主题：在应对气候变化问题上，雄心勃勃的“绿色新政”方案摒弃了正统经济学方法，其目标是既要让经济更加绿色，更要让经济更加平等。主要亮点：文章论及应对气候变化的新方案，“绿色新政”是当前美国热议话题词。

ⅱin economics, climate change is a straightforward example of a market failure, with a correspondingly straightforward solution. governments need only include the social costs of carbon—such as pollution-related deaths and climate change—in the prices people pay. in january economists signed a letter supporting a carbon tax that would refund revenue in the form of a flat, universal dividend. but robust carbon taxation is politically elusive.

ⅲgreen new dealers reckon the secret to solving climate change lies in making the economy both greener and more equitable. their plan proposes a move to 100% clean energy by 2035, and to zero net emissions by mid-century. carbon prices might be included, but the emphasis is elsewhere. supporters describe extensive state support for domestic green industries and large-scale efforts to help workers. they are vague about costs and funding. but decarbonising the economy so quickly would certainly require vast sums, some of which would almost certainly be raised by taxes on the well-off.

ⅳwhy bundle together the seemingly unrelated issues of climate change and economic inequality? to some, the appeal rests in political economy. any plan to free an industrialised economy from fossil-fuel dependence will create losers. to succeed politically, it must mobilise groups of winners more powerful and passionate than

those losers. plans to tax carbon and pay out the revenue as a dividend may seem appealing. but a carbon refund of $100 per month might be too small to mobilise a critical mass of voters, while the associated tax would prompt a no-holds-barred campaign by deep-pocketed fossil-fuel firms. a green new deal, in contrast, might promise sufficient goodies to sufficiently organised interest groups, such as labour unions and domestic manufacturers, to gather a winning political coalition. to others, the green new deal is something more revolutionary. they view climate change as the result of unchecked capitalism and aim to solve it by redistributing economic and political power.

ⅴthere is plenty in the green new deal to make economists nervous. the plan largely ignores analysis of the costs and benefits of climate policy. it would create large opportunities for rent-seeking and protectionism, with no guarantee that the promised climate benefits will follow. it might chuck growth-harming tax rises and dangerously high deficits into the bargain as well.

ⅵthe criticism of the economic approach to climate change implicit in the green new deal is not that it is flawed or politically unrealistic, but that it is a category error. climate change is not a market problem to be fixed through pricing, in this view, but part of a terrible social crisis. it is hard to judge such arguments without decades of hindsight. but they seem to be winning, raising the possibility that, for the moment, economists have lost the chance to lead the fight against climate change.

原文例句：as deals go, the new one was a big one.
就政策而言，“新政”举足轻重。

原文例句：in economics, climate change is a straightforward example of a market failure, with a correspondingly straightforward solution.经济学中，气候变化是市场失灵的一个简单例子，相应的解决办法也很简单。

原文例句：green new dealers reckon the secret to solving climate change lies in making the economy both greener and more equitable. 绿色新政倡导者认为解决气候变化问题的秘诀在于使经济更环保，更公平。