cap-and-trade

  • Paul Krugman: An Affordable Salvation

    Ralph Maughan

    Krugman, the Nobel Laureate in economics says we can afford a cap and trade policy on carbon emissions- An Affordable Salvation by Paul Krugman. New York Times op ed Congress is debating the climate change bill right now. Cap and trade is a market based method of controlling carbon emissions. That means “free market” conservatives…

  • Increasing Agreement on Carbon Taxes — Goodbye 2008 Conventional Wisdom

    Ralph Maughan

    Huffington Post Analysis says carbon taxes work better and more feasible politically than cap-and-trade- The argument that cap-and-trade has always had going for it was political feasibility, but maybe a revenue neutral carbon tax is more feasible. Economic theory would predict a more rapid response to a tax than to a market in pollution (or…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

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