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#Bestof2022: 2/2: The day that Green stopped: 2/2 #SEC: Wall Street’s Going-Green Regulations. Richard Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst (Originally posted April 7, 2022)

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

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#Bestof2022: 2/2: The day that Green stopped: 2/2 #SEC: Wall Street’s Going-Green Regulations. Richard Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst (Originally posted April 7, 2022)

https://www.hoover.org/research/secs-climate-disclosure-scheme-mess

Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover

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the CBSi and the world. I'm John Batchett with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution. We're discussing a bold initiative by Gary Gansler, the new chair of the SEC, formerly a chair of the

0:47.3

SEC during the Obama administration, he's returned to his post to present to all companies private market companies a requirement to disclose what

0:58.2

their investments mean for the future of the Earth's climate.

1:04.0

And the second question that Richard raises in his most recent essay

1:08.0

defining ideas is,

1:10.0

can this proposed initiative, in other words, disclosure disclosure can it lead to curbing what you

1:16.2

presume right now are negative effects of global warming?

1:21.0

How would they demonstrate that, Richard?

1:23.0

Well, I mean, look, when you're starting to do this, it's pretty clear that you know what to do

1:29.0

when you have relatively closed systems. So for example, I suppose you have a bunch of seashells and they're at the edge of a river, but they have to have a salty environment in order to survive.

1:40.0

If it turns out that you pour out too much pure water, it may not be a pollutant in the ordinary sense,

1:46.0

but what it's going to do is to dilute the salt so the organisms will die.

1:50.0

And so therefore you have a relatively clear recipe of what it is that you have to do

1:54.6

when it comes to controlling those kinds of flows. But when you're dealing with global warming,

1:59.6

you're dealing with what is called a complex chaotic system which doesn't mean that

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