Comments on: Thomas Schelling: A Marshall Plan for Climate Change?

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:50 +0000

[...] Scott Schefield recently wrote in a recent post on TriplePundit, “The global warming debate is over. Now the argument moves to solving the crisis of climate [...]

By: chris macrae

chris macrae — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:45:53 +0000

Climate Change is definitely one of those issues that is life changing if you talk to Dr Yunus on it. First Bangladesh will probably be the first 100+ million nation to be washed away if we world citizens http://worldcitizen.tv mess this up in the 2010s. Secondly since 1996 Grameen Energy http://www.gshakti.org has developed solar in a way that is now microloan affordable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEajBQ9gmQ across the rural poor -in other words thriving carbon negative economies are entrepreneurially possible if your countries leading community builders are in charge, use microeconomics’ social business system models and if you have sun. 3rd when I was last in Dhaka (visit 4 to grameen bank http://www.yunuscentre.org and visit 2 to BRAC http://www.brac.net ) I was preceded by 2 senior British ministers who spent 2 days meeting leaders in Dhaka congratulating them on becoming open source sustainability epicentre of the world and asking them to take a lead voice at Copenhagen. 4th my friend polar and solar explorer and broadcaster at the BBC blogs this on dr yunus 69th birthday party for sustainability http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8130130.stm

I have a naive question – do you see the day when Obama would send ministers to Dhaka to celebrate this or when national US media cover this good news story? Why or why not?

It was my take on Schelling’s talk that in the pre-mass tv media days of the Marshall plan national leaders ultimately acted as hi-trust people rather than people boxed in by perceptions of promises made, or short-term voting rewards to come. I don’t think its healthy when bankers or politicians make decisions mediated by 90 day numbers and I am absoluetly sure it was not what adam smith meant by free market economics having read the 250th anniversary talk Dr Yunus gave at Glasgow – one of the 12 global universities now helping his collaboration research of how social value multiplies in a network economics age http://erworld.tv . chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk usa 301 881 1655

By: John A. Jauregui

John A. Jauregui — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:04:46 +0000

When you review the scientific papers out there you find that nothing has done more to “GREEN” the planet over the past few decades than elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 together with moderate sun-driven warming of the planet. If you should doubt this assertion, simply Google “Biological Effects of Carbon Dioxide Enrichment” and “Solar Inertial Motion (SIM) model of global warming”. Then review the basic documents and a sampling of the scientific bibliographic references. One has to ask the question, “Why have environmental groups and our government turned this obvious gift of nature on its head and buried us in propaganda designed to convince us of just the opposite reality?” As a consequence, I have stopped all donations to environmental organizations and to their favored political party. I highly encourage you to do the same. All my financial donations stay within 25 miles of my home, where I can keep an eye on their use.

By: Special K

Special K — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:12:06 +0000

“(Climate change) could lead to innumerable negative externalities . . ..”

Yes! But that seems to be a rather vague description
Of the bad things that “climate change” will bring about
But like all clouds it may have a lining of silver
That will put all the world’s troubles to rout.