The Price Tag on a Ton of Carbon: What It Is, Why It Keeps Changing, and What It Means for Your Future

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Apr 27, 2026, 7:00 am190 ptsTrendingTop
If you took one long-haul flight each year for the past decade, the world would eventually pay about $25,000 for it. You won’t see this charge on your credit card, but the cost shows up somewhere—maybe as a hotter field with less rice, a stronger hurricane, or a factory forced to close on days that are too…

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