Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change
The Waxman-Markey climate bill is the best we will get from America until the corruption of public life is addressed
There are mind-boggling concessions to the biofuels industry, including a promise not to investigate its wider environmental impacts. There's a provision to allow industry to use 2bn tonnes of carbon offsets a year, which include highly unstable carbon sinks like crop residues left in the soil (another concession won by the powerful farm lobby). These offsets are so generous that if all of them are used, US industry will have to make no carbon cuts at all ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Corruption now is centered on campaign contributions and political derailing of news coverage. Publicly financed elections are a core necessity.