An Important Article for my "Green" and "Sustainability" Friends

In "Bound to Burn", a column in City Journal, Peter Huber summarizes the problems with the current approach to control of carbon emmissions. It is the best analysis I have seen.

Mr. Huber's final paragraph summarizes our quandry:

"If we do need to do something serious about carbon, the sequestration of carbon after it’s burned is the one approach that accepts the growth of carbon emissions as an inescapable fact of the twenty-first century. And it’s the one approach that the rest of the world can embrace, too, here and now, because it begins with improving land use, which can lead directly and quickly to greater prosperity. If, on the other hand, we persist in building green bridges to nowhere, we will make things worse, not better. Good intentions aren’t enough. Turned into ineffectual action, they can cost the earth and accelerate its ruin at the same time."

In case human activity is contributing significantly to global warming - see post below - we should at least take an action with positive potential.

Any comments? It is a very important article to read.