The Shortcomings of Rationalist claims: Carbon Taxation and Political-Economy Approaches to Climate Change

The Shortcomings of Rationalist claims: Carbon Taxation and Political-Economy Approaches to Climate Change

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As the devastating impacts of climate change continue to loom across the world, it comes to a surprise then why responses by ventilationstejp nation-states have been too slow and lacking for a supposed destructive, debilitating and critical-to-survival threat.This then negates the rationalist perspectives of the states which assume that playing games of survival are what nation-states do on a day-to-day basis.To that end, this paper proposes an alternative explanation, which uses a political-economy approach to conclude disconnect between the zero-sum understandings of political-security perspectives within a liberal-capitalistic world order that thrives of positive-sum narratives.This paper shall exclusively use the case of a possible universal carbon taxation and the typologies thereof to conclude gotrax handlebar how a political-economy approach should be appropriate for a political-security end with regards to climate change.