by David Sassoon -
Feb 21st, 2008
Some days the facts just line up like so many dominoes, and you just have to let 'em fall. Even if it means bidding adieu to the sacred cow of climate action called Lieberman-Warner, the cap-and-trade law upon which so many ardent hopes of progress are still riding.
The bill, crafted and negotiated inside the Beltway bubble, has become the wrong bill at the wrong time for solving climate. At least it is today, when you line up the evidence like so many dominoes.
Domino #1 - Justice
I give California's Environmental Justice Movement credit for starting this particular chain of tiles to fall. They released a strong declaration that resolves this:
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