| Green Left: In their article "No to carbon trading: make the polluters pay" (GLW #691), Tim Stewart and Pip Hinman argue against the use of carbon pricing in general, and emissions trading in particular, as an important tool for reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. Their argument against carbon pricing is that the costs will be passed on to consumers. This is inevitable and, I suggest, essential. Without a price signal, how can renewable energy sources compete with dirty coal? Without ... |
