Exploring How We Survive Ourselves


	Exploring How We Survive Ourselves

Djiezes

6-5-2008 1:35 PM

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environment, economics, carbon, oil, energy, co2

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There’s only one possible way to make change on that scale: an all-out World War II style effort to convert our economy away from carbon and towards — well, towards conservation, towards buses and bikes, towards wind and sun. We might even have to consider currently far-fetched schemes to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere (at the very least, we’d need to spend big to see if they’re a real possibility). We’d need to do it with a truly aggressive price on carbon (which, to keep from impoverishing everyone, you’d need to rebate back to individuals through some scheme like the increasingly crucial Sky Trust proposed by Peter Barnes). We couldn’t have a nice, seamless transition; we’d need a Saul-on-the-Damascus-road conversion, where the scales fell from our eyes and we set to work.</p> <P>And that would be the easy part….
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