Bill “The Other” Tucker is a learned gent. He’s so right, below, about Gore and nuclear power. So right about cap & trade market mechanisms, so right about the Right and climate change.
But he’s wrong about Kyoto. It’s politically untenable here in the US, and potentially unworkable everywhere else. I see it as history. Worth noting that the best idea in the whole Kyoto plan was inspired by the Americans. The US forced the treaty-writers to include a market system that caps carbon emissions.
Forget about Kyoto. Instead, imagine Americans doing climate action, doing it smart. Not the way crunchy greens would do it, not the way corporate statists would do it–the way America can do it. It’s our nature to fix problems, and no other nation has our track record of innovation, so let’s get going.
I’d like to see the U.S. implement cap and trade to stimulate markets and innovation and reduce our foreign oil habit and cut carbon. We don’t need Kyoto to do all that.
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November 21st, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Tucker,
It is nice to see that a conservative call-to-arms may be underway regarding climate change and the global implications involved. Without acknowledgement there can be no solution.
I think that most reasonable people would agree that we are at a critical point in history - a point where we need to reconsider much of what we have taken for granted. We are destroying our home at an alarming rate, and the energy sources that we have relied upon are now coming at an increasingly heavy price. The objective now should be to reduce environmental damage and work toward a cleaner and more self-reliant future. We probably can’t heal the wounds, but maybe we can stop the bleeding. Corporations can adapt or perish. This should not be a “red state/blue state” issue, but if helps to bring about a greater urgency, so be it. Sometimes, the ends do justify the means.