Jonathan Elwell: An effective plan for carbon pricing

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jonathan Elwell, who is from Brattleboro and a junior political science/international relations major at Carleton College in Minnesota. He volunteers as a campus representative for Our Climate, a carbon pricing advocacy group.
Climate change debates are often framed in the context of tipping points — temperature benchmarks where global warming and all its effects will accelerate and become significantly more difficult to mitigate or reverse. Fortu