Orlando Diaz, president of the Florida Association of Mortgage Professionals, quoted in Lydia DePillis, Mortgage Regulators Are Shrugging Off Climate Risk. It Could Cost Taxpayers Billions, NY Times, Dec. 7.
Without a tax, everyone will do the same tomorrow as they did yesterday.”
Danish dairy farmer Svend Brodersen, quoted in Taxing Farm Animals’ Farts and Burps? Denmark Gives It a Try., by Somini Sengupta, New York Times, Nov. 26.
The only way we’re going to seriously move away from fossil fuels is to significantly reduce the demand for fossil fuels.”
Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, quoted in Who Says You Can’t Live Off the Grid in Manhattan?, Nov. 10, a profile of Manhattan resident John Spodek, who is living off the power grid for a fourth consecutive year.
I had always felt like we were safe from climate change in this region. But now [Hurricane Helene] makes me question that maybe there’s nowhere that’s safe.”
Wedding photographer Erica Scott, who moved to Asheville, NC from California 16 years ago, in In Booming Asheville, Residents Rethink Their Sense of Safety, Sept. 30.
Instead of urging power companies to burn less fossil fuel, tax carbon emissions.”
Binyamin Appelbaum, lead writer on business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times, in Blaming Milton Friedman, a NYT opinion piece published Sept. 18, 2020. (Yes, that was nearly four years ago, but it’s still current.)
We have to change the laws and policies. We must stop subsidizing. We have to put a tax on carbon, as we have already put a tax on methane.”
At this point we might as well meet inside an actual oil refinery.”
Joseph Moeono-Kolio, lead adviser to the campaign for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, quoted in The New York Times, Files Suggest Climate Summit’s Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels, Nov. 28.
Politically speaking, the big question [about NIMBYism against big clean-energy projects] is about intensity… Anyone who follows politics … knows that wide, broad, shallow majority support cannot stand up to narrower, smaller, but more intense opposition.”
Journalist-podcaster (at www.volts.wtf) David Roberts, What rural people really think about clean energy, Nov. 8. (Link is to transcript; this link goes to podcast.)
Nordhaus assures us in his DICE model that growth continues like a cruising Cadillac on the California coast with an occasional pothole. But the reality is rainstorms, mudslides, earthquakes, and other drivers on the road.
Christopher Ketcham, in When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy, The Intercept, Oct. 28.
Climate action is dwarfed by the scale of the challenge. We must make up time lost to foot-dragging, arm-twisting and the naked greed of entrenched interests raking in billions from fossil fuels.”
United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres, while convening the U.N. Climate Ambition Summit, reported in At a Summit on Climate Ambition, the U.S. and China End Up on the B List, New York Times, Sept 20.
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