Re: [Ag-umwelt] [PiraNa] Fw: [pp.int.general] Richard Stallman: Don't roast our planet

[Johannes Nix <Johannes.Nix AT gmx.net>]

Hallo,

zwei Links von Richard Stallman zum Thema globale Erwärmung.


Das erste ist ein Artikel von James Hansen, in dem er
zur Nutzung von Ölsanden in Kanada Stellung bezieht:

James Hansen: Game Over for the Climate
[ http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/10-2 ] 

Hansen macht auch einen sehr konkreten Vorschlag einer
Energiesteuer, die auf die Bevölkerung pro Kopf zurück verteilt wird:

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We need to start reducing emissions significantly, not create new ways
to increase them. We should impose a gradually rising carbon fee,
collected from fossil fuel companies, then distribute 100 percent of
the collections to all Americans on a per-capita basis every month. The
government would not get a penny. This market-based approach would
stimulate innovation, jobs and economic growth, avoid enlarging
government or having it pick winners or losers. Most Americans, except
the heaviest energy users, would get more back than they paid in
increased prices. Not only that, the reduction in oil use resulting
from the carbon price would be nearly six times as great as the oil
supply from the proposed pipeline from Canada, rendering the pipeline
superfluous, according to economic models driven by a slowly rising
carbon price.

But instead of placing a rising fee on carbon emissions to make fossil
fuels pay their true costs, leveling the energy playing field, the
world’s governments are forcing the public to subsidize fossil fuels
with hundreds of billions of dollars per year. This encourages a
frantic stampede to extract every fossil fuel through mountaintop
removal, longwall mining, hydraulic fracturing, tar sands and tar shale
extraction, and deep ocean and Arctic drilling.
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Der zweite, ebenfalls lesenswerte Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem
Ausmaß der wirtschaftlichen Interessen hinter der Fossilenergie-Lobby:

Bill McKibben: The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry
Fights So Hard  [ http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/07-2 ] 

Viele Grüße,

Johannes