Matt Yglesias

25 Responses to “Yes We Can Combat Catastrophic Climate Change”

1. Dan Kervick Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

   Agreed!

   The climate-energy-infrastructure nexus is the ground for precisely the sort of big picture, big project, antional commitment people are hungry for, rolling in bi-partisan cooperation, national service, and spirited patriotic sacrifice and energetic long-term vision that people wanted after 9/11. And it will be a huge shot in the arm to the economy. During the final debates that showed continuous focus group tracking of independents, it was very noticeable how strongly these issues registered.

   I think Obama is going to go Kennedy on this, big time, and make it the centerpiece of his inauguration speech and first 100 days.

2. steve duncan Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

   This stuff bores me. I’m excited about 2012 and month after month of Joe Lieberman following Obama around calling him Bin Laden’s toady and lapdog. Then Obama says “That Joe, he’s such a kidder! What a great guy though, really, once you get to know him!”

3. kafka Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

   Another good starting price – tax carbon fuels and offset the tax with lower income tax rates and a bigger earned income credit. In other words, shift the tax base away from income and toward the consumption of stuff that is harmful.

4. sharon smith Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

   Obama says there’s only one president at a time, and that’s true–but of the two people standing near the reins of power in this country right this minute, he’s the one who’s actually leading.

   It’s nice to see an intelligent, realistic, grown up response to global warming. Finally.

5. Mixner Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

   Obama says he wants to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. What price must be put on carbon to reach this target?

6. James Robertson Says:
   November 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

   The translation for the rest of us:

   “Yes, we can make power less reliable and lower living standards for all of us in order to fight a fictitious problem. But the upside is, urban elites like Matt Yglesias will feel good about themselves”

7. joe from Lowell Says:
   November 19th, 2008 at 9:08 am

   Oh, boy, here come the chicken littles.

   You forgot to mention, Mr. Robertson, that if we combat global warming, there will be no automobile manufacturing industry in the United States by 1975.

   You should have some more faith in the capacity of private enterprise to innovate its way around challenged in response to economic incentives.

8. James Robertson Says:
   November 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

   When you figure out how to generate increasing power (because demand, even with greater efficiency, grows year by year) by eliminating coal plants and not building nuke plants, let me know. private enterprise can innovate all it wants, but it can’t create miracles. Wind and Solar are niche answers, period. You want to do without coal? Fine – you’ll need nukes. You want no gas powered cars to eliminate emissions? Well, you’ll need even more nuke power.

   Obama is living in a fantasy land. Unfortunately, he has enough delusional allies in the Congress to make us all learn that the hard way.

   It’s not that we can’t replace coal and oil for power generation; it’s that we can’t do it all with “alternative energy”.

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