I was outraged that the breakout group on environmental justice communities was gagged and banned from talking about the negative effects of Cap & Trade (aka pay-to-poison) on them by CR. Why were they invited then? To talk about why the oil & gas companies are bad, but not about the enablers?
And as far as SB 100, it was eye-popping to see 800 slides from Gore’s deck to see how much of a climate crisis we have right now, yet applaud a bill that will not get us dirty electricity (not energy) by 2–0–4–5! That is 27 years from now! Where is the urgency? And the bill is aspirational, there are no teeth in it, no penalty if we don’t reach it. And it still has offsets, including REDD, the program where oil & gas companies go to forests in South America, evict the natives, privatize them and then claim them to “offset” pollution here, where they pollute at the source. So, people there, AND here get screwed. To #LeadOnClimate we must have a 100% renewable energy target of 2035 or sooner with a clean renewable portfolio standard and no offsets. It can be done, and it must be done. Oil & Gas companies will go under and they must go under for us and a livable climate to exist.