We Need a Global Carbon Tax

The cap-and-trade approach won't stop global warming.

If President Barack Obama wants to stop the descent toward dangerous global climate change, and avoid the trade anarchy that current approaches to this problem will invite, he should take Al Gore's proposal for a carbon tax and make it global. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 4, 2008

Nader and Heaps make a number of good arguments for a global carbon tax instead of a cap and trade scheme. A link to a debate and discussion on the relative merits of the two approaches could add to a more informed opinion. I added a few in the links.

Is this really an either/or situation, or could a hybrid system be devised that took the best aspects of the various schemes? And could we add such a scheme for animal methane?

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