Grist goes off on Annie Leonard's Story of Cap & Trade
Grist's David Roberts thinks Annie Leonard doesn't really understand the real Story of Cap & Trade.
Tue, Dec 01 2009 at 8:50 PM EST
Annie Leonard, the creator of The Story of Stuff, has a new video out about cap and trade and why she thinks it won't work. Watch this.
David Roberts over at Grist didn't appreciate Leonard's take on cap and trade and pretty effectively answered her four main arguments:
1. Allowance giveaways are bad.
2. Offsets are bad.
3. Carbon markets are bad.
4. Cap-and-trade is a "distraction" from "real solutions."
Here's how he opens his post Annie Leonard misses the mark in her new video, "The Story of Cap & Trade":
The greenosphere is all abuzz about a new video from Annie Leonard, creator of semi-famous anti-consumerism video/book The Story of Stuff. It’s being billed as a definitive debunking of cap-and-trade, but it’s more like a perfect representation of all the confusion and misplaced focus that plagues the green left right now.
Swing over to Grist and read the post in full.
Via Marc Gunther, who is also still a fan of the markets.
UPDATE: Check out Eric De Place's point by point ripping of The Story of Cap & Trade over at WorldChanging.
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Comments
Aaron
12/02/2009 12:23 PM
Cap and Trade is nothing but a money scheme for big bankers based on a flawed assumption that CO2 needs to be curbed. Carbon would become the world's largest market. To what end? To milk you and I for more money, that's what end.
Tell Al Gore to shove it. I hope all the a-holes in Copenhagen have their private jets and high dollar cars wrecked while they're there.
Why is CO2 everyone's focus? Can't we focus on the real environmental issues instead of the eco-bankers.... More
Patrick Bond
12/02/2009 00:57 AM
Hi, I'm biased, as I was involved in the production of Story of Cap and Trade. I don't think Roberts took the time to go through the documentation on the new website. And I think the rebuttals from Oscar Reyes and plenty of other commentators are sufficiently strong to question both the efficacy and political strategy of Cap & Trade supporters like yourselves. My question: at what point is a flawed strategy like this one worth dropping? What would persuade you folks - Shea and Mark, and.... More
