Have you heard the term “Cap and Trade,” but not been quite sure what it means?
Or maybe you know what it is, but can’t make heads or tails of all the double-talk in Congress and the mainstream media?
Good news: there’s a helpful and fun new video called “The Story of Cap & Trade” and it’s just for YOU. This charming-yet-hard-hitting video explains what Congress is doing — and NOT doing — when it comes to tackling global warming.
Best of all, this whole project is led and narrated by Annie Leonard, an amazing activist with a talent for entertaining straight talk aimed at empowering people and repairing our fragile ecosystems. Annie Leonard was the driving force behind the now-famous “The Story of Stuff” video.
The Story of Cap & Trade comes in the nick of time! This month, as you may know, a major international climate summit is happening in Copenhagen, Denmark. The United States’ role in these talks is critical, and we need real solutions, not giveaways to big polluters.
Here’s a preview of the full 9 minute video. Watch the full length version on the Story of Stuff website.
About the video:
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.
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The effects of Global Warming is getting much stronger these days. We should concentrate more on alternative energy to reduce carbon emissions.
Business as usual is exactly the modus operandi of our government and the big business/banking entities supporting cap and trade legislation- it is all about the money. Another item of interest is the fact that all CO2 mitigation technology that is receiving the majority of government funding is “sequestration” which is the absolute cheapest way to provide lip service to the situation [that technology has been around for decades and requires zero innovation], while not really getting rid of the problem [i.e. the co2 still exists in storage...leakage? emissions created building this solution? metrics used to accurately guage how much is being removed?...among the few problems] – JDJ