Ok - so the title should be Some environmentalists -- but that isn't as eye-catching.
There is a story out today in some of the environmental trade press talking about Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace now opposing the Lieberman-Warner bill because its too moderate. It has enough environmental rigor for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), but that's not enough for these guys -- who have actually gone after Boxer for not being green enough -- if you can imagine that?
I did a whole big firey post about all this -- including the trade article on my other blog that talks about bringing pragmatism into environmental and energy policy. I urge you to read all about it at: http://ecopragmatism.blogspot.com/
This ties into the ag offsets issue because part of what these groups want to "fix" about the Lieberman-Warner bill is getting rid of the offsets program.
Just more reason to get into this issue and define it from a pro-ag point of view!
Sara
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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To be clear, the main problems with the Lieberman-Warner bill are its failure to reduce global warming pollution to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 and its up to a trillion dollars in giveaways to polluters. That is a lot of money -- more than the U.S. has spent on the war in Iraq.
Readers who wish to learn more are welcome to visit http://www.lieberman-warner.org.
Nick Berning
Friends of the Earth Action
While you are being clear, why don't you give folks here your view of how ag offsets should be treated?
I think it would be helpful for us to discuss the meaning of the word "giveaways". You hear it a lot surrounding this issue. How does L-W giveaway trillions of dollars to polluters? Thanks for the blog, Sara.
Jacob
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