Today my guest is Anant Sudarshan, an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Senior Fellow at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). We talked about air pollution in India, crop burning, subsidizing electricity, depleting ground water, the impact of the collapse of keystone species and much more.
Recorded November 25th, 2024.
Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:52) - Air Pollution in India
(00:06:00) - Causes of Pollution in Delhi
(00:07:32) - Addressing Crop Burning as a Source of Pollution
(00:14:11) - Regulatory Frameworks for Pollution in India
(00:18:16) - Creating a Market for Pollution
(00:39:52) - Vehicular Pollution and Rationing
(00:53:56) - How Subsidies Complicate the Pollution Problem
(01:02:44) - Pigouvian Subsidies
(01:08:19) - Electricity as a Right
(01:26:04) - The Near-Extinction of Vultures in India
(01:38:41) - Outro
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