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 Club’s 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.
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2111
Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, has served on the boards for the National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, and Public Interest Economics Inc. A regular contributor to the Huffington Post, he co-wrote the book Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress, which was published in 2004.
Yep...can’t wait for his book explaining how Obama managed to do more environmental damage in 2 months than Bush did in 8 years.