Sierra Club chairman Carl Pope told a Maine newspaper last week that Obama is, in his view, the best environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt.
Carl Pope - Sierra Club:
“solve the climate crisis are higher energy prices and lower consumption”
Moving the U.S. Off Carbon With Less Pain, More Gain
Many environmentalists assume that putting a price on carbon and creating a renewable energy economy will require major public sacrifice. But the Sierra Clubs Carl Pope argues that a well-designed package of market reforms not austerity will lead to a prosperous, low-carbon future.
by carl pope
Indeed, the widespread implication that the key policy needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is a price on carbon does reinforce the notion that the most important things needed to solve the climate crisis are higher energy prices and lower consumption.
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