Brad DeLong wrote:
Pray for cleaner technology and raise the CAFE standards!
has praying ever done any good?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Max,
Heck, I'll take both you and Peter, and
maybe even the irascible Devine One up
on that, :-).
Barkley
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From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 8:49 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5071] RE: Re: Re: global
At 01:30 PM 11/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
Max,
Heck, I'll take both you and Peter, and
maybe even the irascible Devine One up
on that, :-).
start pouring...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Maybe this is the time to vent an idea I've been carrying around...
The Kyoto negotiations are an example of global quasi-governance processes that
are proceeding fitfully but are absolutely essential to our future. I would add
third world debt-reduction to this list, also global labor
Peter,
Actually we are back to the ultimate appeal
of and argument for the tradeable permits scheme,
that it may achieve a given level of emissions reduction
at the least cost. That means there will be less political
resistance to tightening emissions standards. The
very nature of the
Hey I used to work at a law firm in DC that liked to chew up environmental
legislation on behalf of a huge corporate client list no matter how mild the
regs. would be. They scuttled quite a bit of the Clean Air Act rewrite.
Their tenacity and militancy should not be underestimated; they won't
G'day Doug,
Louis Proyect wrote:
Actually most people value peace and health more than shopping at the
malls
and cancer. That is the reason drug use and prozac is so widespread in the
USA. Beneath the "good life" there is a profound feeling of despair.
...but which can't get articulated as
Jim Devine wrote:
Mike Lebowitz's book, BEYOND CAPITAL, deals with these issues of Marx's
deterministic vision.
While they have somewhat different agendas, and clash on some issues,
Wood, Foster, and Harvey are all very good on the mixture of deterministic
and non-deterministic elements in
Peter,
Thanks for the reference.
There is nothing stopping
a firm that owns the right to emit a certain amount of a
given pollutant to emit less. But it cannot emit more.
Ceiling implies a maximum above which one cannot
go. A floor is a minimum below which one cannot go.
Tradeable
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
Peter,
Thanks for the reference.
There is nothing stopping
a firm that owns the right to emit a certain amount of a
given pollutant to emit less.
No, but under a tradeable system the underpolluting firm sells its excess to
another firm that
le for both.
Barkley Rosser
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From: Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:42 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5061] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: global warming talks failure
"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
Peter,
Jr.
Peter,
Thanks for the reference.
There is nothing stopping
a firm that owns the right to emit a certain amount of a
given pollutant to emit less. But it cannot emit more.
Ceiling implies a maximum above which one cannot
go. A floor is a minimum below which one cannot go.
Louis Proyect wrote:
Actually most people value peace and health more than shopping at the malls
and cancer. That is the reason drug use and prozac is so widespread in the
USA. Beneath the "good life" there is a profound feeling of despair.
...but which can't get articulated as despair. If I
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