[lbo-talk] questions on greenhouse gas emissions - for Doug or anyone else

[Patrick Bond]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>> ... isn't it possible that some of the more lefty/pink environmental 
>> types who oppose cap-and-trade oppose it for the vague and somewhat 
>> stupid reason that it just has a neoliberal "flavor" to it - i.e., 
>> it's a market?
>
> You've got a point. But it seems the last thing we need right now is 
> to create a whole new derivatives market. I saw the creator of the 
> carbon futures market in Chicago <http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/> at 
> the Council on Foreign Relations a while back, and he was enthusing 
> about the possibilities of a new $10 trillion market.

Last month I got a chance to bust off on Richard Sandor and other such maniacs in stereotypical leftypinkgreen style: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk991CVPLNc&feature=channel_page