Van Jones was among speakers at Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Green Conference in early April.
4/11/11, "Routed Greens Retreat," GlobalWarming.org, Marita Noon
"Climate change legislation has been the holy grail of the environmental movement—but the climate has changed. Now the green movement is playing defense.
This change of climate is not from carbon emissions—though it is manmade. At the same conference, former green jobs czar, Van Jones, didn’t “blame the environmentalists or the policy concept itself.” What brought about the change? How’d the debate get reframed and cause the death of cap and trade? Something, Jones pointed out, no one in the room had heard of twenty-four months ago—“a right-wing populace movement” that the carbon emission supporters failed to take seriously:
Man changed the political climate in just two years. After forty years, environmentalists are now on the defense because of some under-estimated
- “upstarts.”...
Greens have other ideas and word games on tap such as "Renewable energy standards" (RES):
"The RES should be seen as the “reinvention” of cap and trade—another approach. According to the New Mexico Independent, “The plan would allow energy suppliers to buy credits from other producers who produce renewable energy and allow producers to ‘bank’ the credits for up to four years
- and borrow credits for up to three years into the future.”"...
via Tom Nelson
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