To many, relying on markets and the pricing mechanism to drive the transition away from fossil fuels – which, in terms of broad approach, is what the world widely and increasingly is doing – is itself problematic enough. Markets are not only impersonal and faceless; they are also unaccountable. Should not someone, or rather some democratically elected institutional collective of someones, be taking responsibility? One of the big problems, surely, with market-coordinated processes is that people cannot ask markets why they are doing things in a certain way. Nor can people ask markets why they
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