Here’s some interesting news that didn’t get widely reported, except for an editorial in the Washington Post.
An independent task force commissioned by the influential Council on Foreign Relations just released a report that urges an “overhaul of U.S. domestic and foreign policy to confront the challenge” of climate change. One of the task force’s specific recommendations is for the U.S. to adopt a cap & trade system that reduces our domestic greenhouse gas pollution. Another is for the U.S. to pursue an international climate treaty but only sign it if countries like China and India are included. Good stuff.
This report isn’t the product of some left-wing academics, either. The task force was co-chaired by former New York Republican governor George Pataki and included a number of noteworthy folks from the political and business worlds including Tim Adams, former Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs under President Bush, Ken Mehlman, campaign manager for President Bush’s 2004 re-election effort, and Robert Lane, chairman and CEO of Deere & Company.
The Council on Foreign Relations isn’t the first such group to recommend doing something about climate change (remember the CNA Corporation’s National Security and the Threat of Climate Change written by eleven retired U.S. three- and four-star admirals and generals?). Too bad more in Congress and the GOP aren’t listening.
Here’s something else that’s worth a read – Mike Gerson wrote in yesterday’s Washington Post about the dangerous transfer of wealth to the Persian Gulf that is occurring as a result of our addiction to foreign oil. It’s scary – and right on the money.
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