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Comments (2)
Carbon credits can't work. They just make people think we are doing something about the problem.
All we are doing is legalizing corporate polution and providing a framework in which to pollute. This doesn't prevent more pollution, it allows less polluting plants to sell their carbon credits to more polluting plants. For example: an efficient power plant will be given carbon credits for it's efficiency, then this plant can sell these credits to a less efficient plant which is polluting more. The net carbon content released into the atmosphere is the same. We need to find a solution that sequesters all carbon released into the atmosphere. A measure that allows efficient power plants to sell "pollution credits" is worthless. But then again we feel better because we are doing something about pollution ...right?
Posted by Ryan | November 3, 2007 7:32 AM
The whole case for carbon credits is that it gradually increases the price to pollute and, therefore, makes alternatives more appealing.
The use of cap and trade is the best solution that anyone has proposed so far that will actually make a difference in a managable way.
So, on the contrary, carbon credits are the only thing that can work.
Posted by Tom | November 5, 2007 1:48 AM