‘James Hansen – the world’s leading
climate scientist fighting against global warming – told Amy Goodman
this morning that cap and trade not only won’t reduce emissions, it may
actually increase them:
The problem is that the emissions just
go someplace else. That’s what happened after Kyoto, and
that’s what would happen again, if—as long as fossil fuels
are the cheapest energy, they will be burned someplace. You know, the
Europeans thought they actually reduced their emissions after Kyoto,
but what happened was the products that had been made in their
countries began to be made in other countries, which were burning the
cheapest form of fossil fuel, so the total emissions actually
increased…’
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