Friday Quote—- “Using the market to tackle the climate crisis”

“It has become clear that the full changes America needs will not be solved by simply swapping White House tenants. In fact, this has been emphasized by the new tenant himself: we can’t stand on the sidelines and expect to realize the full change we need. And the change we most urgently need is the one that government is least able to tackle alone: the climate crisis. The US government has so far produced only a counterfeit proposal for responding to climate change. As fossil fuels’ day in the sun approaches dusk, the main sources driving continued greenhouse gas emissions are growing hungrier.”

This is from an incisive editorial by James Hansen and Aaron Sanger in the Boston Globe, covering the controversial tar sand extraction and a path toward a clean energy economy. Check it out.

Also, it’s worth revisiting DTE’s posts on the world’s dirtiest energy source up north: Here for a mean opinion and here for an Obama/CBC interview during his first foreign visit.