My new post: The road forward from cap-and-trade Part two of my response to Theda Skcpxkpl.

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My new post: The road forward from cap-and-trade Part two of my response to Theda Skcpxkpl.

This division of labor in the cap and trade effort — insiders work out legislation, pollsters and ad-writers try to encourage generalized public support — reflects the way most advocates and legislators in the DC world proceed nowadays. “The public” is seen as a kind of background chorus that, hopefully, will sing on key. Insiders bring in million-dollar pollsters and focus-group operators to tell them what “the public” thinks and to try to divine which words and phrases they should use in television ads, radio messages, and internet ads to move the percentages in answers to very general questions in national polls. It all has a very distanced, antiseptic quality to it, as powerful and very economically secure people look down on the American multitudes with a kind of bemused amazement and try to find poll results about public attitudes to wave in front of policymakers. … ...

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@EarthAction » 28 Jan '13, 2am
More from David Roberts on the failure of cap-and-trade and the future of climate policy, via @drgrist: [link]
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RT @ThePhoenixSun: Truth. "Changing American #climate politics will be a ground-up affair." [link] @drgrist
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@rdolivaw » 17 Jan '13, 6pm
Interestng to read these reflections on Skocpol's paper as it provides some insights for Japanese climate campaigns to… [link]
@MTCascadia » 17 Jan '13, 5pm
RT @ClimateDesk: Cap-and-trade was busted last time. Here's how to fix it [link] via @grist
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@ClimateDesk » 17 Jan '13, 5pm
Cap-and-trade was busted last time. Here's how to fix it [link] via @grist
@kristinpene » 17 Jan '13, 4pm
Great response by ‏@drgrist to Skocpol's account of what went wrong in the 2009 climate legislation fight [link]
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RT @bryworthington: must read from "@drgrist: With the failure of national US climate leg, what's the road forward for climate hawks?: [link]"
@bryworthington » 17 Jan '13, 9am
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@SashaLyutse » 17 Jan '13, 2am
Next installment fr @drgrist: where we go fr here after the failed quest for a national, comprehensive #climate policy. [link]
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@drgrist dissects climate movement and critiques - fundamentals must change for national solution, take fight to states [link]
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@drgrist » 16 Jan '13, 10pm
With the failure of national climate legislation, what's the road forward for climate hawks? I ponder: [link]
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"The road forward from cap-and-trade" - [link] - shared from @TaptuGreen
@ThePhoenixSun » 16 Jan '13, 10pm
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@drgrist » 16 Jan '13, 10pm
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The road forward from cap-and-trade - After diagnosing what went wrong on cap-and-trade, political scientist Theda S... [link]
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@GregAnrig » 16 Jan '13, 8pm
Thoughtful and cogent @drgrist response to Theda Skocpol's analysis of what went wrong in the cap-and-trade debate: [link]
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RT @drgrist: My new post: The road forward from cap-and-trade [link] Part two of my response to Theda Skcpxkpl.
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My new post: The road forward from cap-and-trade [link] Part two of my response to Theda Skcpxkpl.
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RT @drgrist: My new post: The road forward from cap-and-trade [link] Part two of my response to Theda Skcpxkpl.
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RT @drgrist: My new post: The road forward from cap-and-trade [link] Part two of my response to Theda Skcpxkpl.