Comments on: What Bloomberg’s Green Jobs Will Really Mean http://bloombergwatch.com/index.php/10/what-bloombergs-green-jobs-will-really-mean/ Above the rules? Above the People?! Tue, 22 May 2012 10:31:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Rochana Rapkins http://bloombergwatch.com/index.php/10/what-bloombergs-green-jobs-will-really-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-1219 Rochana Rapkins Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:01:56 +0000 http://bloombergwatch.com/?p=2603#comment-1219 All the hysteria concerning the cap-and-trade bill, such as the Newsweek editorial claim that the bill will “destroy private enterprise in the United States” is identical of the misinformed outcry about the banning of CFCs that once threatened to destroy the ozone layer. As Christian Sartorius and Stefan Zundel point out in their book “Time Strategies, Innovation and Environmental Policy, the corporations manufacturing CFCs in fact experienced a net cost savings from the phase out. . http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/interactive2010/2009/10/30/media-hysteria-concerning-cap-and-trade-bill-misplaced/ All the hysteria concerning the cap-and-trade bill, such as the Newsweek editorial claim that the bill will “destroy private enterprise in the United States” is identical of the misinformed outcry about the banning of CFCs that once threatened to destroy the ozone layer. As Christian Sartorius and Stefan Zundel point out in their book “Time Strategies, Innovation and Environmental Policy, the corporations manufacturing CFCs in fact experienced a net cost savings from the phase out. .

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]]> By: RGM http://bloombergwatch.com/index.php/10/what-bloombergs-green-jobs-will-really-mean/comment-page-1/#comment-1214 RGM Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:09:09 +0000 http://bloombergwatch.com/?p=2603#comment-1214 It really doesn't make sense that we would look at the unsuccessful cap and trade system in Europe and decide that it would work for the US. We can not afford to push legislation through just for the sake of being able to say we did "something." We need further discussion before Congress decides to pass this economically crippling legislation. Write your representatives at http://tiny.cc/rovse. It really doesn’t make sense that we would look at the unsuccessful cap and trade system in Europe and decide that it would work for the US. We can not afford to push legislation through just for the sake of being able to say we did “something.” We need further discussion before Congress decides to pass this economically crippling legislation. Write your representatives at http://tiny.cc/rovse.

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