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Perry Recker is a reformational Christian thinker-activist who is deeply concerned about the USA's and the world's environmental situation which he believes is in a fundamental crisis, a crisis that increases daily. There's an urgency in his thawt and activities. I often go in a somewhat different direction, but am delighted he's shared his analysis and agenda with me on refWrite's new Facebook page. So, I decided to share his contribution here on the frontpage of the blog. Welcome, Perry, to the oily sands of my unsettled viewpoint (which may be ladened with contradictions 8-).
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Re results of the Durban Climate talks: While at long last, the biggest and fastest-growing greenhouse gas emitters – China , the U.S. , and India – have come to grips with the most urgent and contentious issue facing humanity--concerned citizens in these and other nations can ill afford to wait until 2020 to start bringing down our fossil fuel emissions.
Unprecedented bouts of budget-busting extreme weather in recent years have given us a taste of what to expect if we fail to follow through. But while the agreement is a small turn in the right direction, concerned citizens must look for more effective ways to get their super-tanker governments to turn in healthy direction more quickly. More acute action on many levels of civil society is need now in order to meet our responsibility to future generations.
The simplest, most transparent, and most fiscally conservative policy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions is a revenue-neutral carbon tax. Impose a fee on carbon-based fuels at the wellhead or mine exit, based on carbon content, and rebate the proceeds back to citizen households. This would unleash the free market to determine the most cost-effective methods to cut carbon emissions, whether through efficiency, renewables, carbon capture, or whatever else national ingenuity can produce.
Legislation based on this approach, the Save Our Climate Act, has been introduced in the U.S. House.
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