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Or why you can’t solve a problem with the thinking that created it

Last week we posted the teaser for The Story of Cap and Trade, the new video hosted by Annie Leonard, the creator of the viral hit video The Story of Stuff. Produced by Free Range Studios, the Story of Stuff Project, and Climate Justice Now!, The Story of Cap and Trade offers a clear and concise message on how carbon cap and trade schemes are, as Daphne Wysham characterized it to me, a “false solution.” Wysham is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a co-director of IPS’ Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, and one of the principal consultants for The Story of Cap and Trade.

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Video excerpts of Senator Byron Dorgan speaking on his belief in the need for a cap on carbon, clean energy, and a low carbon economy, yet his reservations about the current cap and trade scheme proposed by the House Waxman-Markey bill.

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Australia opts to delay its emissions trading program due to economic concerns. Delay’s are likely to cost money and leave industry with no clear signal on how to approach investments on CO2 reductions.

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Which is the most effective means of curbing greenhouse gas emissions and turning to a clean energy economy – carbon tax or carbon trading?