Optimism and Climate Change Mitigation
I attended a meeting of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby in Santa Barbara this morning, where our small group joined 189 others around the country on a videoconference. This virtual gathering featured two fabulous speakers who both made compelling and uplifting presentations on the group’s plan to put a price on carbon.
Called “carbon fee and dividend,” it proposes a fee on all fossil fuels entering the U.S. market (at the mine, well, or port) at a certain dollar amount per ton of carbon, that is distributed to all U.S. citizens as a dividend. (more…)
Below is a cool thing I got from a friend. Note the remarks on electric transportation, renewable energy, and the desalination of water.
A commenter remarked recently that consumers can’t be forced to adopt eco-sensitive values. He goes on to say that his neighbor recently offered him a ride in his new Rolls-Royce Phantom, and says, “This huge automobile with its 12 cylinder, 6.8 liter engine and luxurious appointments costs nearly $1 million.” 
Lots of folks wonder what our civilization will look like as the effects of climate change become more pronounced. What happens when the amount of arable farm land falls, potable water gets scarce, and hundreds of millions of people’s ancestral homes are under water? Some speculate that the result is a population so desperate that it becomes ungovernable. 
As you consider the meme here, realize that Americans generally have had the concept of UBUNTU programmed out of us by our consumer/capitalist society that is as fundamental to our being and as invisible a part of our lives as the air we breathe.
The concept discussed in 
Here’s an article in “Think Progress” called 
The importance of being 
An angry gentleman from Australia posted this story, explaining how “
We tend to think of climate change as something that will eventually wreak incredible havoc on our world–but have we already begun to experience its effects? 
