San Francisco’s Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (CRPE) announced today that it received the judge’s writ in its lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The writ gives the green light to most of the policies advanced under AB32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, but puts a permanent hold on cap and trade.
“Judge Ernest Goldsmith of the San Francisco Superior Court ruled that CARB violated CEQA (the California Environmental Quality Act) when, among other things, it failed to properly consider alternatives to a ‘cap and trade’ program in its Scoping Plan to implement AB 32,” CRPE’s statement says. “The Court’s Writ, issued Friday, enjoins, or stops, all implementation and actions in furtherance of cap and trade until CARB completes a lawfully adequate CEQA review.”
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The REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) program is the same old model of top down change (i.e. “I don’t buy your land but I pay you to conserve it.”). It seems like just another way for Wall Street Speculators to make money; moreover, I’m not confident that paying a person that is clear-cutting a forest and replanting it with trees, for example, is a legitimate “carbon swap”.
Einstein said: “We cannot solve our problems with the same way of thinking that created them.”
– Jeremy