U.S.: Dialogue on Climate Crisis legislation

Letter to CCC: Responding to Ted Glick's Climate: Time Is Short
http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/tedclimatecolumn.html
By Lorna Salzman, April 23, 2007.

"Welcome to the club, Ted. How about CCC taking the lead and demanding 90% reductions by 2020? To get this we need drastic mandatory reductions in fossil fuel use: rationing, caps on all fossil fuel power plants and annual reductions of 10% until they reach zero and the plants are shut down. During this period wind, solar, and efficiency must be brought on line so we get a 100% renewable portfolio within ten years. We need to put a very high price on carbon. We need to ban the manufacture and sale of SUVS. We need to get rail freight moving and reduce trucks. We need to reject cap and trade because these do not call for mandatory annual reductions to zero, and because they will allow coal plants to continue to operate. We should say: shut all coal plants within ten years. We need to end all fossil and corn ethanol subsidies. We need to ban buildings with windows that can't open. We need to ban cars in inner cities served by public transportation. We need to promote free public transportation, funded through the carbon tax revenues. We need to publicly oppose the Safe Climate Act [80% reduction of GH gasses by 2050 is too little, too late and cap and trade is the wrong tack] and write our own bill. Circulate a petition with these demands nationally... We need to show that Kyoto is finished and never sufficed anyway. We need to take the lead away from US Climate Action Partnership. Either we believe what we say about the crisis or we don't." People wishing to respond to Lorna Salzman's call to action can reach her at lsalzman@rcn.com.