This is a Weinstock Lecture on the Morals of Trade
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. This lecture will examine how the export of hydrocarbons, in particular, has become an enormous threat to efforts to rein in greenhouse gasses, and it will examine in particular the role that America–the world’s biggest exporter of gas–plays in this ongoing catastrophe. And it will examine the role that non-tradeable commodities–sunshine and wind–might play in easing this crisis.
