<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Club for Growth starts campaign to derail Lieberman-Warner]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Cacaoatl http://www.grist.org/article/growth-industry/ Tue, 27 May 2008 18:24:17 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/growth-industry/1 Growth Industry

I went to Club For Growth's website. Their aversion to even minor regulation is frightening. Sure we've all read the horror stories about regulations run amok. Maybe if people and organizations did a better job regulating themselves we wouldn't need so much government oversight. Club For Growth represents everything wrong with libertarians, they ignore the part of Constitution about one of government's duties being protecting the general welfare. That means protecting the public from such ills as corruption, greed,neglect, and downright incompetence. And unfortunately global warming and climate change are the result of those ills combined. All the economic growth in the world isn't going to mean diddly squat when day traders in San Francisco have to take a gondola to work.

]]> Growth Industry

I went to Club For Growth's website. Their aversion to even minor regulation is frightening. Sure we've all read the horror stories about regulations run amok. Maybe if people and organizations did a better job regulating themselves we wouldn't need so much government oversight. Club For Growth represents everything wrong with libertarians, they ignore the part of Constitution about one of government's duties being protecting the general welfare. That means protecting the public from such ills as corruption, greed,neglect, and downright incompetence. And unfortunately global warming and climate change are the result of those ills combined. All the economic growth in the world isn't going to mean diddly squat when day traders in San Francisco have to take a gondola to work.

]]> Comment #2 by ce1907 http://www.grist.org/article/growth-industry/ Tue, 27 May 2008 21:59:17 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/growth-industry/2 repubs not problem

clique of senior dem staff

target the girl

goal business as usual

energy committee next year

goodbye goals, hello safety valve, preemption, next year

]]> repubs not problem

clique of senior dem staff

target the girl

goal business as usual

energy committee next year

goodbye goals, hello safety valve, preemption, next year

]]> Comment #3 by billgee http://www.grist.org/article/growth-industry/ Tue, 27 May 2008 23:46:52 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/growth-industry/3 CLUB FOR DEATH

CLUB FOR DEATH&DESTRUCTION OF OUR WORLD

]]> CLUB FOR DEATH

CLUB FOR DEATH&DESTRUCTION OF OUR WORLD

]]> Comment #4 by Michael Shellenberger http://www.grist.org/article/growth-industry/ Wed, 28 May 2008 13:56:33 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/growth-industry/4 This is what happens when you cede the cost debate

This is what happens when you dismiss the debate over costs as mere right-wing propaganda.

For years, conservatives have been saying that it will be too expensive to do much about climate change. Environmentalists have either responded that it won't be very expensive or that the cost doesn't matter, given what's at stake.

Whether you want to deal with global warming primarily through pricing carbon or investing in new technology, we have to justify the program's cost and not avoid the subject.

This is our analysis of what the Climate Security Act (Boxer Amendment of Lieberman-Warner) would cost:

http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/05/how_much_will_it_ ...

]]> This is what happens when you cede the cost debate

This is what happens when you dismiss the debate over costs as mere right-wing propaganda.

For years, conservatives have been saying that it will be too expensive to do much about climate change. Environmentalists have either responded that it won't be very expensive or that the cost doesn't matter, given what's at stake.

Whether you want to deal with global warming primarily through pricing carbon or investing in new technology, we have to justify the program's cost and not avoid the subject.

This is our analysis of what the Climate Security Act (Boxer Amendment of Lieberman-Warner) would cost:

http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/05/how_much_will_it_ ...

]]>