Tim DeChristopher, the maestro of civil disobedience — we wrote about this Monkey Wrencher not long ago — wrote us this about yesterday’s post, in which we talked about the EPA’s decision to regulate carbon dioxide. He said:
Reilly,
It is great news that the EPA sees carbon as a pollutant and plans to regulate it. The scary side of that is the American Clean Energy and Security act (Markey-Waxman) contains a clause that prohibits the EPA from actually regulating CO2. Dr. James Hansen informed me about that last week, but I still don’t know where that clause is located in the 645 page draft.
Tim — peacefuluprising.org
Huh. Markey-Waxman is the bill that institutes a cap-and-trade system to regulate carbon dioxide pollution. If what Hansen is saying is true (and I haven’t read it anywhere else) it’s a shock. But James Hansen is in charge of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, and he was at DeChristopher’s arraignment in Salt Lake City last week (not guilty, ya’ll got to feel me), and chances are good Hansen knows what he’s talking about. Hansen is a vocal critic of cap-and-trade, advocating a carbon tax instead.
Not that it matters, but a tax makes more sense to me, too.
— Reilly Capps, reillycapps@gmail.com.
Yes!! Finally rap’s heavyweight of modern environmental consciousness gets his due. No, but that was a nice callback to the Jigga man.
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