Indigenous Activist to Gov. Brown: You're Not a Climate Hero

Following a protest of the Governor's Task Force on Climate and Forests, in which indigenous climate activists demanded a place at the table, we spoke to organizer Dallas Goldtooth, about false market-based solutions to climate change and how Gov. Brown can do better. In collaboration with Energy Justice Network.

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CO2 spot marked or paying for CO2 release is a way to introduce cost to companies that "need" to pollute. The goal is to make it such that over time the bis will naturally turn towards more environmental positive ways to do stuff in order to avoid or reduce cost because the introduced cost in itself has created a long term incentive motivation to address it. This notion that a nation like the US, which is running on truck fuel to feed itself and "everything" else the nation needs, is child like. When ca 80% of the worlds energy needs are met via fossil fuels. Its not something one can just turn off over night, specially without warrantable option in scale, infrastructure and so on...

Capitalistic ways of making pollution become a cost. Will have a increase chance of turning things around. For example, Norway has one of the largest amount electric car pr Citizens. Why? Because Norwegians care about the environment more than others or because there is no VAT (25%) on electric cars and the government have done so in order to increase the chance of the nation reaching its CO2 goals...

Well regulated Capitalism works, but changing core aspects will take time. History has seen it before. When steam ships were introduced. It still took them ca 100 years to replace the last sailing ship. While that was from wind to coal. The other way will still take time.