The net zero paradigm disaggregates global emissions and allows each company to design an individualized plan. This atomized approach is not just amenable to manipulation - it frustrates the kind of collective action the crisis demands.
This week at the blog, we're sharing a few of our favorite posts from Notice & Comment's recent symposium on Networks, Platforms, and Utilities, a new casebook by Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand. First up: the authors explain why it's time to revive the field of "regulated industries" and to recover the idea that public interest demands a substantial measure of public control over society’s infrastructural resources.