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The End of Growth
Post Carbon Board President Debbie Cook and Fellow David Hughes were both quoted in this piece in The Guardian about climate laws in California.
From the article:
Under the law, California must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020, an aim which would be achieved through a range of measures, including making energy producers and other polluters reduce emissions or pay penalties.
Unemployment is currently above 12%, and so a successful referendum would delay the country's most far-reaching climate change bill for quite some time, changing green economy politics in the US.
In the run-up to the vote, "California will be the national battleground for the future of climate change regulations in the United States," Debbie Cook, former mayor of Huntington Beach, a conservative California town, told Guardian Sustainable Business. "The state will be flooded with not just dollars, but thousands of climate activists from around the nation."...
Some critics say Schwarzenegger's decision to ban offshore drilling has little global environmental impact, since the state's sizable fossil fuel needs will still have to be met by drilling somewhere, so the effect of the move is to "foist that off on the unseen global oil market," says David Hughes, geoscientist and fellow at the Post Carbon Institute.
"If you can make someone else assume the risks and still enjoy all the benefits why would you undertake to roll the dice and undertake those risks and responsibility yourself?"
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