The Hill, April 9, 2015
Between 1994 and 2014, the global price of oil tripled, yet U.S. oil burning barely budged. While higher prices reduced per capita consumption, they didn’t cut aggregate consumption. To do that we need to put a declining physical limit on carbon entering our economy.
Scientific American, December 1, 2008
Cap and dividend would unite Americans in the fight against climate change in a way that no other policy would — as citizens who are all co-owners and caretakers of the air.
US News & World Report, June 16, 2008
You divvy it up. One person, one share. Wired to your bank account like Social Security.
Washington DC, September 18, 2008
I COME BEFORE this committee to discuss cap and dividend, a climate policy that is simple, fair, effective and market-based. Cap and dividend allows us to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to the levels scientists are calling for, while protecting the incomes and purchasing power of American families.
Common Dreams.org, March 23, 2007
FOR YEARS we’ve heard the bad news about global warming. What we haven’t heard is the good news: we’ll earn an enormous cash windfall if we fight global warming the right way.
OnTheCommons.org, 2003
ALL AMERICANS are joint owners of a trove of hidden assets. These assets — natural gifts like air and water, and social creations like science and the Internet — constitute our shared inheritance. The trouble is, our common wealth — and our children’s — is being squandered.
State of the Commons 2003
The American Prospect, November 16, 2001
THE ALASKA Permanent Fund hasn’t attracted much attention in the Lower 48—but it should. For citizens of all states are about to inherit another gift of nature worth trillions of dollars. And hardly anyone is talking about it.
The Nation, February 7, 1994
IF YOU THINK creating enough well-paying jobs to retain America’s current living standard is challenging, it’s child’s play compared to what Paul Hawken says we must do next: convert to an economy that sustains rather than destroys the earth.
The New Republic, August 21, 1971
FOR THE PAST year and a half I’ve been living on an old dairy ranch about fifty miles north of San Francisco. Not long ago, while I was walking with a female friend near my ranch, two armed Rangers stopped to ask who I was and where I was going.
The New Republic, December 15, 1973
ANGELENO LIFE is unthinkable without the automobile. But Washington is talking about 10 or 15 gallons weekly gasoline quotas, Sunday closing of gasoline stations, and immediate cutbacks of diesel fuel and heavy heating oil.
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