Larry Lohmann, Durban Group for Climate Justice Speaks on Carbon Trading
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 Larry Lohman visited Chicago the first week of March to talk students, environmental groups and local officials about the ineffectiveness of carbon trading (also known as cap and trade) as a tool for removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. If you missed him, you can click here
to hear an intervew with Larry by Jerome McDonnell on WBEZ's Worldview or to watch an interview by Canada's The Real News Network. For more information on cap and trade, click here to read our last issue of E-COnnections.
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We CAN Rely on Renewable Energy! Did You Know . . .
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If carbon trading is not the solution, then what is? Here's what some of the experts are saying:
- The U.S. is blessed by an abundance of renewable energy resources from the sun, wind and the earth. The Union of Concerned Scientists says that the combined potential of major renewable technologies could provide more than five times the electricy our country needs. Read more . . .
- Wind energy is emerging as a centerpiece of the new energy economy. This is
because it is abundant, inexpensive, inexhaustible, widely distributed,
clean, and does not emit harmful greenhouse gases. Lester
Brown, Director of the Earth Policy Institute claims that three of our 50
states - North Dakota, Kansas
and Texas -
have enough harnessable wind energy to satisfy national electricity
demands. Read more . . .
- Brown also
says that, by making the most of efficiency improvements in lighting and
appliances, we could reduce power demand sufficiently to preclude the need to
construct another 1,410 coal plants. And
. . . that's more than the 1,382 coal plants the International Energy
Agency predicts will be built by 2020.
- According to Brown, If we start manufacturing new wind turbines with the same industrial urgency the U.S.
produced tanks and bombers in World War II, we could generate 3 million megawatts of wind power by 2020 - enough to
meet 40% of the world's energy needs. Read more and listen to Lester Brown here . . .
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