A great point to make with serious activists who are still clinging to cap and trade!! (just don't tell the industry pocket politicians......)
Jeanne -----Original Message----- From: Margaret McCasland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sustainable Tompkins County listserv <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 1:43 pm Subject: Re: [SustainableTompkins] best way to store carbon discovered! I think Monbiot probably does support a carbon ax; I certainly do. The only way I can see most oal being left in the ground is if there is a ubstantial tax on it "upstream" of its being sed: that is, the moment it leaves the ground. Margaret I'm a little surprised that he didn't make a case for a carbon tax, but perhaps that idea looks totally impossible given the business-as-usual scene he describes. Joel At 09:54 AM 12/12/07 -0500, you wrote: >not a joke: serious policy, economics and science >behind this. Monbiot's latest and one of his best. > >http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/12/11/rigged/ > > >Rigged >Posted December 11, 2007 >The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply. > >By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 11th December 2007 >Ladies and gentlemen, I have the answer! >Incredible as it might seem, I have stumbled >across the single technology which will save us >from runaway climate change! From the goodness of >my heart I offer it to you for free. No patents, >no small print, no hidden clauses. Already this >technology, a radical new kind of carbon capture >and storage, is causing a stir among scientists. >It is cheap, it is efficient and it can be >deployed straight away. It is called Š leaving >fossil fuels in the ground. >On a filthy day last week, as governments >gathered in Bali to prevaricate about climate >change, a group of us tried to put this policy >into effect. We swarmed into the opencast coal >mine being dug at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales and >occupied the excavators, shutting down the works >for the day. We were motivated by a fact which >the wise heads in Bali have somehow missed: if >fossil fuels are extracted, they will be used. > >. . . > >FULL ARTICLE AT LINK ABOVE >_______________________________________________ >RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: >[email protected] >http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins >free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ SS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ttp://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins ree hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
