The free markets will never tackle climate change effectively

Rather than a nightmare, we need to present a positive vision of how things could be if we tackled climate change through transforming our energy systems. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 1, 2008

Matthew Lockwood offers a smart, simple call for governments to promote innovation in green technology and avoid punitive measures to curb carbon emissions. Told from a British perspective, which is good for comparative purposes in this globally relevant topic.

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by William Hughes-Games - Jan. 20, 2010

Seems like a pretty accurate look at reality

The free market has actually tackled climate change but not the way it might have liked to. The free market has caused the collapse of the world economy with no bottom yet in site. Until the bottom is reached, we will be using less and less of the world's resources and producing less and less carbon dioxide. This little glitch might have just given us the breathing space to tackle our dependence on fossil fuel but probably not. If we manage to crash the ecology which gives us so ... More »

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