Good evening,
I only have 5 words to say about
carbon emissions trading and
carbon offsets :
Watch these two videos below!
Actually,
I do have more to say on it, and it's at
Blue's Green Mate & The Big Green Directory
- here -
Plus this :
I would have thought that if you needed
to affect a change in industry, the simplest and most obvious approach
is to create carbon cap targets, incentives and penalties, and
let the industries go for it. ( No offsetting )
So why are we also paying compensation to the
carbon producers ? To reduce the amount of price rises they
would make to compensate for having to make carbon production
level changes ? If that was the case, the compensation should be
going to the consumers. Surely it's not because we feel bad that
climate change is going to end their business ?
And if we're serious, all industries, everyone
and everything, including agriculture, will do their
required and necessary bit.
Indeed, the status quo has been well
and truly ' Quo vadis'd '. ( 'Where are you going ?' )
The Age of Great Change and There's No Going Back is upon us.
There seems no need for producer compensation to me - it is afterall their own industry byproduct that's created the carbon toxicity levels in the first place. Some integrity and forthright commercial responsibility is due here I believe.
Unfortunately for them, the gig's up, and elvis has indeed left the building and he ain't coming back. ( the door locks
are being changed anyway )
I wonder if the carbon producers will go through the typical death and dying process of denial, anger, bargaining and finally acceptance ? ( are we at bargaining ( ie 'compensation' ) already ? )
At a personal level, I recognise that acceptance
that one's ( carbon producing ) business is on the way out,
is going to die, is a difficult thing.
Over the next few years, I suspect the innovation
and improvement of renewable energy technology will , as it
is now, accelerate tremendously ( if there's no intereference ).
I think new technology
advancements will effectively uproot a lot of the
carbon producers' embeddedness.
At that point, I feel, death for carbon
producing industries will come swiftly...
palm tree guy
Cheat Neutral
( A great, and amusing, way to explain
carbon emissions trading and offsets )
and
The Story of Cap and Trade
( Another way to explain it )
From Annie Leonard at The Story of Stuff Project
And this is an excellent article, at
The Story of Cap & Trade website, answering
many FAQs about cap & trade, like 'Isn't
cap & trade better than nothing?' - here .
After having written my comment at
the top of the page, that same
evening there was an interview on
Lateline, ABC TV, with James Hansen,
the climate scientist from NASA, who
pretty much said the same thing ( as did
'The Story of Cap & Trade' animation, and
Cheat Neutral, too ).
The synchronicity of it all...
Also read the article by James Hansen
in The New York Times, dec 6, 2009, here
Below is the interview with James Hansen,
on Lateline, ABC TV, dec 7, 2009, - or watch it,
and read the transcript, at ABC online - here.
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