Gar Lipow wrote:
.. Amy Goodman also had Larry Lohmann in a debate with Frank Ackerman
I know, how inappropriate! Why not some bankster from Goldman Sachs or
IETA? (They were probably too scared.) Frank was the worst possible
choice because instead of denying the myriad problems, he just shrugs
and says, 'yeah we better fix that'. I debated him in Boston in
September and it was the same situation, he's so reasonable. But on the
downside, he's so in-the-box politically, that he can't see a future of
decarbonization outside the present grid-locked congressional legislation.
on Cap &
Trade today. Notable for how much they agree on (including the idea
that putting a price on carbon is going to solve the problem.)
That's definitely not Larry's position. I don't recall him saying that,
at http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/15/cap_trade_a_critical_look_at
Check his amazing book on the subject:
http://www.dhf.uu.se/pdffiler/DD2006_48_carbon_trading/carbon_trading_web_HQ.pdf
You could still be the first to book me if you wanted.
Gar definitely has written the finest material in the US. Book him,
Doug, you need to make up for your ambivalence in that Nation piece on
carbon trading a few years back. :-)
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