On January 1, 2017, Posh Company buys 100 % of the voting stock of Spice Inc. for $150 million in cash. After the acquisition, the trial balance of each company (in millions) at January 1, 2017, along with the fair value of Spice assets and liabilities and and their remaining useful lives, is:

Earn positive economic profit in the long run if it can maintain barriers to entry, assuming no changes in costs or market demand

Answerpolicy of redistribution;

Combining the emissions released by fossil fuel burning and  the carbon released via land use change, we get a total of 8.7 gt. since the problem states that the oceans "take up" or sequester  2.4 gt carbon  per year, we subtract that value from 8.7 gt, leaving us with 6.3 gt of carbon. since the problem states that 3.4 gt carbon dioxide emissions end up in the atmosphere, the "missing sink" of carbon takes up 2.9 gt, a value we got by subtracting the 3.4 gt amount recorded from the 6.3 gt carbon left available after the oceans sequester the carbon dioxide.