Comrade Hans, On 5/20/2013 6:10 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Dear Joseph, Gar, Patrick, and others: > ... a downstream carbon rationing scheme > is the best policy instrument I can think of. Although I > fully agree with Patrick's critique of cap and trade as a > bogus solution (I arranged Larry Lohmann's visit in Utah in > 2006), I think carbon rationing is immune to the critiques > of privatizing the sky and bogus solution.
I fear you're arguing for change at the margin, driven by atomistic morally-individualistic behaviour that can slowly ease markets in a lower-carbon direction, if everyone agrees to comply voluntarily. What we need, though, is massive public investment in carbon reducing activities, in transport, energy, agriculture, production, consumption, disposal, etc. And mandatory caps that shrink the total CO2e emissions by 10% per year or so. I've read your and Kevin Anderson's very eloquent statements and am as guilty as sin for not reducing flying, myself. But I'm not getting from this a theory of social change (and a strategy for climate justice) aside from demand-creates-its-own-supply, which I don't buy. Yet. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
