Just had a look at the bbc website story about personal carbon allowances:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6167671.stm
The comments pages are rather depressing in that very few people seem to grasp that this is a fair, fiscally progressive and guaranteed way of contracting our national emissions.
In fact it is the national equivalent of the widely supported proposal known as Contraction and Convergence (C&C). C&C will hopefully provide the framework for a truly effective and equitable successor to the Kyoto climate treaty.
The barrage of abuse that the idea received on the bbc website reflects the size of the task that faces CRAGs in persuading folk of the need for national and international carbon rationing. The longer we leave this the meaner and more rapidly shrinking those rations will have to be if humanity is to have half a chance of preventing run-away climate change.
Is the language of personal carbon trading holding it back?
Jessica
http://www.rsacarbonlimited.org/article.aspa?pageid=859
See this debate on the RSA website between Max Boykoff and Linda Rost. Anyone can comment, so please do! This is a long-running debate amongst CRAGgers.
(David, excuse me if I’ve posted in the wrong thread, and feel free to move it to a better one. Can’t find it now.)
Jessica R