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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone - 0 views

www.rollingstone.com/...s-terrifying-new-math-20120719

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  • global food prices.
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 18 Oct 13
       
      hits people close to home
  • These companies don't simply exist in a world whose hungers they fulfill – they help create the boundaries of that worl
    • Tara Picudella
      Tara Picudella on 18 Oct 13
       
      is he switching the problem of his essay from global warming towards just blaming oil companies
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      kinda seems like it. he just keeps criticizing the oil companies without offering anything else about global warming.
  • Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free. Nobody else gets that break – if you own a restaurant, you have to pay someone to cart away your trash, since piling it in the street would breed rats. But the fossil-fuel industry is different, and for sound historical reasons: Until a quarter-century ago, almost no one knew that CO2 was dangerous. But now that we understand that carbon is heating the planet and acidifying the oceans, its price becomes the central issue.
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  • Once, in recent corporate history, anger forced an industry to make basic changes. That was the campaign in the 1980s demanding divestment from companies doing business in South Africa. It rose first on college campuses and then spread to municipal and state governments; 155 campuses eventually divested, and by the end of the decade, more than 80 cities, 25 states and 19 counties had taken some form of binding economic action against companies connected to the apartheid regime. "The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century," as Archbishop Desmond Tutu put it, "but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure," especially from "the divestment movement of the 1980s."
  • engineering problem" that has "engineering solutions."
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      what can engineers do about it that everyone else can't?
  • Kentucky farmers were reporting that corn kernels were "aborting" in record heat
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      this sentence hits farmers, and then also everyone else.
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      first this targets farmers, and then everyone else.
  • words – it's a greed problem.
    • Yi Jin
      Yi Jin on 18 Oct 13
       
      This is relevant back to chief lyon's interview in which he mentions the greed of ceo's
  • hefty tax on coal and gas and oil, then simply divide up the proceeds, sending everyone in the country a check each month for their share of the added costs of carbon
  • a giant hurricane swamps Manhattan, a megadrought wipes out Midwest agriculture
    • Nikki Schmeling
      Nikki Schmeling on 18 Oct 13
       
      yeah this one hit home a little bit, the drought thing.
  • citizens might decide to regulate carbon and stop short of the brink; according to a recent poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans would back an international agreement that cut carbon emissions 90 percent by 2050.
  • have been loath to make the fossil-fuel industry their enemy, respecting its political power and hoping instead to convince these giants that they should turn away from coal, oil and gas and transform themselves more broadly into "energy companies."
  • If you put a price on carbon, through a direct tax or other methods, it would enlist markets in the fight against global warming. Once Exxon has to pay for the damage its carbon is doing to the atmosphere, the price of its products would rise. Consumers would get a strong signal to use less fossil fuel – every time they stopped at the pump, they'd be reminded that you don't need a semimilitary vehicle to go to the grocery store.
  • reduce the profitability of the fossil-fuel industry
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