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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Barnes |
| ISBN: | 9781603580052 1603580050 |
| OCLC Number: | 174112741 |
| Description: | xvi, 93 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | What's the problem? -- What makes good climate policy? -- What are the goals? -- What's fair? -- Who owns the sky? -- Who are the players? -- Who pays whom? -- Will it last? -- What about technology? -- We can do it -- Four tools -- Carbon taxes -- Carbon caps -- Regulations -- Investments -- What states can do -- What cities can do -- Federal preemption -- Cool ideas -- Three varieties of cap-and-trade -- A seat in Exxon Stadium -- Lessons from Europe -- Protecting family incomes with equal dividends -- Giveaway of the century? -- Upstream, downstream -- Safety valves and their alternatives -- Offsets aren't permits -- CheatNeutral -- Resolving the carbon price dilemma -- Carbon capping in a nutshell -- Carbon capping EZ guide -- An American climate solution -- Fairness -- What about China? -- Beyond Kyoto -- Current federal legislation -- Legacy industries on climate policy -- Faith principles on climate policy. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Barnes ; foreword by Bill McKibben. |
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Abstract:
This guide is about the last chance to save the planet. It's a result of hundreds of how-do-we-do-this-right discussions over many years. Peter Barnes shares what he's learned in these discussions because the climate crisis must be solved now, and popular understanding is a pre-requisite to getting a solution that actually solves the problem.
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""Climate Solutions" is a simple guide to the big environmental policy decisions that are soon going to be made.... By reading these few pages, the average voter will be able to figure out what programs to support and what to fight against, instead of simply shrugging one's shoulders and hoping for the best."--"LA Times" "Emerald City" blog<br><br> Read more...
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