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Friends of the Earth say carbon trading is sub-prime

Source: Another Green World

Nov 05, 2009

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Very pleased with Friends of the Earth's statement today challenging carbon trading, we could do with a bit more of this from the Green Party and from other environmental organisations.

Its been a long campaign for me and other ecosocialists and I have just been writing a book chapter on what I describe as the 'real climate swindle' i.e. dodgy carbon trading.

I think although Elinor Ostrom's paper released earlier in the week is not an explicit criticism of carbon trading Elinor wonderful conservative radical and respectable anarchist that she is, asks a simple question 'Have we tested climate policy to see if it works?' It doesn't work for climate change.

I think this work from FoE is a also real break through, I am a bit of an ngo sceptic sometimes, which is a product of working with indigenous activists who win in the Amazon! Environmentalists in the rest of world sometime forget people live in the Amazon and are fighting for and winning and getting shot for their troubles...

Any how I think this excellent research from FoE pushes in the direction of urgentl ...Read the full article

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