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Beyond baby steps: Analyzing the cap-and-trade flop
2013-01-14 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Watching the collapse of the effort to create a cap-and-trade plan for carbon emissions in 2009-10 was profoundly depressing. Reading Theda Skocpols insightful history [PDF] isn`t much more fun - but its certainly useful, in a Santayana kind of way. Since this is a mistake we cant afford to repeat (the planet is running out of spare presidential terms and congressional sessions), Skocpol performs a real service by helping figure out what went wrong. The first thing to be said, I think, is that...
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