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Evaluating Policy Effectiveness for Energy System Transformation
Imagine you are an advisor to a government committee on climate change. Two main policy proposals are being considered. Proposal A offers substantial subsidies for homeowners to weather-strip their houses and replace old appliances with new, more energy-efficient models. Proposal B provides large-scale government investment and tax incentives for the development and construction of new solar and wind farms to replace aging fossil fuel power plants. Based on the principle of facilitating a strategic shift towards different, more sustainable energy technologies, which proposal would you argue is more fundamental and impactful for long-term climate action? Justify your choice, explaining why one represents a more significant system-level change than the other.
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