{"id":848,"date":"2009-10-13T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2009-10-13T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:51:28","slug":"more-democratic-betrayal-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/more-democratic-betrayal-on-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"More Democratic Betrayal on the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT Op-Ed: &quot;Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)&quot; By JOHN KERRY and LINDSEY GRAHAM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/11\/opinion\/11kerrygraham.html?ref=opinion\" target=\"_blank\">Laugh or cry?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clean coal <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"Senator Kerry's online office\" href=\"http:\/\/kerry.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Kerry<\/a>? <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT: &quot;Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways&quot; by Charles DuHigg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/13\/us\/13water.html?em\" target=\"_blank\">It doesn&#8217;t exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still suffering from those nuclear too-cheap-to-meter fantasies, dear Senator? Get over it. I<a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"George Monbiot: &quot;Thanks, But We Still Don\u2019t Need It: Some of the arguments against nuclear power are no longer valid, but it remains the wrong technology.&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.monbiot.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/11\/thanks-but-we-still-dont-need-it\/\">t is still the wrong energy source<\/a>. It always be.<\/p>\n<p>Just pass a modest carbon tax that ratchets up over time and watch a billion good ideas spring forth. We don&#8217;t need your top-down, Stalinistic plans. We can <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"350.org: 24 OCTOBER 2009 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION\" href=\"http:\/\/www.350.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">get it down to 350<\/a> on our own.<\/p>\n<p>Just make sure to reduce the income tax (or increase tax credits) by an amount equal to that brought in by the carbon tax. Structure the tax reductions\/credits such that the impact on the poor &amp; middle class will be nil (and thereby shutting up both the whiny liberals as well as your tax-phobic buddies over on the Republican side of the aisle).<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, maybe you &amp; your party should stop <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"OpenSecrets.org, Capital Eye Blog: &quot;Power Struggle: Coal, Nuclear Industries Lobby to Keep the Lights On,&quot; by Lauren Pick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2008\/08\/power-struggle-coal-nuclear-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">taking so much money from the old, gray power industries of yore.<\/a> It might clear up your judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry still suffers from the fantasy of &#8220;clean&#8221; coal and too-cheap-to-meter nukes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,20,91],"tags":[501,187,504,505,21,500,503,165,502],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-efficiency","category-environment","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-perspectives-on-american-gluttony","tag-350-org","tag-carbon-tax","tag-clean-coal","tag-climate-change-legislation","tag-greenwash","tag-john-kerry","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-new-york-times","tag-opensecrets-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}