There’s an entertaining new video on cap and trade by Annie Leonard, The Story of Cap and Trade. There’s plenty of controversial propositions in the video that would stimulate some good discussion in climate change courses, especially at the undergraduate level. A more well-reasoned and detailed critique in this vein has been recently released by the Friends of the Earth, A Dangerous Obsession, comparing cap and trade and offset schemes to the sub-prime mortgage market.
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