An American Green Hero…Van Jones in Seattle!
Van Jones did not disappoint as the keynote at the Climate Solutions 2nd Annual Fundraiser breakfast in Seattle this morning. He evoked the oil spill disaster in the Gulf as a learning opportunity and catalyst for moving us away from fossil fuels and towards a national climate policy.
Van Jones did not disappoint as the keynote at the Climate Solutions 2nd Annual Fundraiser breakfast in Seattle this morning. He evoked the oil spill disaster in the Gulf as a learning opportunity and catalyst for moving us away from fossil fuels and towards a national climate policy. Jones stated that we are now paying the price on the back-end for fuels that are cheap at the front end. The fact is that we pay artificially low prices for our energy, as industry has been “allowed” to pollute our environment without a penalty, thereby subsidizing the real cost of fossil energy production. With a cap-and-trade or a carbon tax policy, he argues, we would begin to pay the “real” price for these resources and presumably change our behaviors as a result.
