There are no legitimate…

There are no legitimate climate change mitigation strategies that do not involve a hard cap on carbon emissions, and some form of price for exceeding these. Cap and trade markets have been both criticized and lauded for encouraging industry to tackle only the low hanging fruit. They are imperfect and a hard cap, which could be set with different initial allowances for different sectors or industries, would be much simpler to institute and have more direct and immediate impact. Is there a price to consumers and industry? yes. Will that cost be a small fraction of the eventual costs that we accrue from unfettered environmental devastation? Absolutely.

There is no evidence that our current government has any commitment to a climate change policy that will set a hard cap on carbon, nor any evidence that our current government truly believes that climate change is a legitimate threat to our health or economy.

This exercise, when our government has already outlined a plan to take the federal government to court on the matter, is fraudulent and I comment only to demonstrate that contempt for sound plans with scientific rationale must not be met with silence.