Climate solutions : a citizen's guide / Peter Barnes ; foreword by Bill McKibben.
Author: Barnes, Peter, 1942-
Publisher: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2008.
ISBN: 9781603580052 (pbk.)
1603580050 (pbk.)
Description: xvi, 93 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Subject: Climatic changes Government policy.
Global environmental change Government policy.
Global warming Government policy.
Contents: What's the problem? -- What makes good climate policy? -- What are the goals? -- What's fair? -- Who owns the sky? -- Who are the players? -- Who pays whom? -- Will it last? -- What about technology? -- We can do it -- Four tools -- Carbon taxes -- Carbon caps -- Regulations -- Investments -- What states can do -- What cities can do -- Federal preemption -- Cool ideas -- Three varieties of cap-and-trade -- A seat in Exxon Stadium -- Lessons from Europe -- Protecting family incomes with equal dividends -- Giveaway of the century? -- Upstream, downstream -- Safety valves and their alternatives -- Offsets aren't permits -- CheatNeutral -- Resolving the carbon price dilemma -- Carbon capping in a nutshell -- Carbon capping EZ guide -- An American climate solution -- Fairness -- What about China? -- Beyond Kyoto -- Current federal legislation -- Legacy industries on climate policy -- Faith principles on climate policy.
