Fiddling as the Earth Burns

Fiddling as the Earth Burns

The Issue

Impose a Carbon Tax on Corporations,  Fund Renewable Energy Development with the  Proceeds ...
"Regulating by carbon trading is like fiddling as Rome burns. Governments and the UN should impose a carbon tax on corporations, both for production - wherever their facilities are located - and for transport, which the Kyoto Protocol does not account for directly. Incentives for renewable energy are also essential. We face a stark choice: we can destroy the conditions for human life on the planet by clinging to 'free-market' fundamentalism, or we can secure our future by bringing commerce within the laws of ecological sustainability and social justice ."

Vandana Shiva, leading author and activist in India, member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Organic Consumers Association

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http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19149.cfm

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http://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2009/09/china-emissions-carbon-levels

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Ani L. SchwartzPetition StarterINDEPENDENT CERTIFIED GENIUS; triple Sagittarius VersatileViolinist; ViolaDoubles; BFA, MFA: California Institute of the Arts Big Mouth but know how to Listen; Have a reputation for "thinking like Schwartz" (as a fellow blogger put it). One of my main "religions" is Daoism, the I Ching is one of my "bibles"; Music, Jungian Psychology, Dreams, Life, Synchronicity are some of my others which are all interwoven with each other. Serendipity Rules!!!! Pay Attention to it and you will SEE.
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The Issue

Impose a Carbon Tax on Corporations,  Fund Renewable Energy Development with the  Proceeds ...
"Regulating by carbon trading is like fiddling as Rome burns. Governments and the UN should impose a carbon tax on corporations, both for production - wherever their facilities are located - and for transport, which the Kyoto Protocol does not account for directly. Incentives for renewable energy are also essential. We face a stark choice: we can destroy the conditions for human life on the planet by clinging to 'free-market' fundamentalism, or we can secure our future by bringing commerce within the laws of ecological sustainability and social justice ."

Vandana Shiva, leading author and activist in India, member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Organic Consumers Association

LEARN MORE 
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19149.cfm

Straight to the Source
>>> Read the Full Article online here 
http://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2009/09/china-emissions-carbon-levels

OR READ IT BELOW:

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avatar of the starter
Ani L. SchwartzPetition StarterINDEPENDENT CERTIFIED GENIUS; triple Sagittarius VersatileViolinist; ViolaDoubles; BFA, MFA: California Institute of the Arts Big Mouth but know how to Listen; Have a reputation for "thinking like Schwartz" (as a fellow blogger put it). One of my main "religions" is Daoism, the I Ching is one of my "bibles"; Music, Jungian Psychology, Dreams, Life, Synchronicity are some of my others which are all interwoven with each other. Serendipity Rules!!!! Pay Attention to it and you will SEE.

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Petition created on September 30, 2009