After BP: Climate Progress?

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🗓️ 20 July 2010

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After BP: Climate Progress? Joe Romm, Editor, Climate Progress Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress It is “morally unconscionable” for the fossil fuel industry, and the politicians who carry their water in Congress, to stand in the way of action on climate change, says Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm. A Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and former US Department of Energy official, Romm says California voters have an opportunity this November to defeat the forces seeking to delay action on climate change by rejecting an attack on AB 32. “There isn’t anything more important Californians can do than kill Proposition 23 by as large a margin as possible to send a message. Anybody who wants to save the climate in this country, who wants to pass legislation, is going to have to transform politics in this country so that there is a political cost to trying to destroy the climate. ” Confronted by such a grave threat, we need to act now, he says. Which means we can’t wait for technologies yet to be invented. More R&D funding for clean energy would be wonderful, he says, but “We need to deploy every last piece of low-carbon technology we have today if we’re to give the next generation a fighting chance.” This program was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco at The Commonwealth Club on July 19, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy? Climate One at the
0:36.0	Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
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0:55.6	matter. It's our future. It's time to come together. Welcome to Climate One at the Commonwealth
1:01.2	Club. I'm Greg Dalton. Our guest today is Joe Rome, the editor of the Climate Progress blog and a senior
1:06.2	fellow at the Center for American Progress. Last year, Time magazine named him the Webb's most influential climate change blogger.
1:13.7	And this year, Time named him one of the top 25 bloggers in the country,
1:17.8	along with Cake Rec, Pitchfork, and Roger Ebert's Journal.
1:21.9	Rome holds Ph.D. in physics from MIT and was an official at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Clinton administration,
1:30.1	climate administration. Please welcome Joe Rome to Climate One.
1:37.3	Joe, welcome. Thanks for coming.
1:39.4	Thanks for having me.
1:41.4	Is cap and trade dead?
2:03.5	Yes, cap and trade is dead. And it's, I think, indication of how poor progressives and environmentalists are at messaging that anything was ever called cap and trade.
2:09.7	No sane person who is trying to communicate and convince people to do something important builds their case around a process, which is cap and trade, an arcane approach to
2:17.0	addressing pollution.
2:19.4	The fact is the goal is to reduce pollution, promote clean energy,
2:26.0	reduce our dependence on oil.
2:28.9	And those of us who wanted climate action built a whole case around putting a price on carbon,
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