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<BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff>At Occupy Boston's General Assembly on
Thursday March 15th, Gary Rucinski of Citizens Climate Lobby will present the
principle of Carbon Fee & Dividend, and describe Pete Stark's "Save Our
Climate Act". Thursday’s GA will be held at 7:00 at Emanuel Church, 15
Newbury Street (close to the Arlington T stop). The opportunity to
present was organized by Occupy Boston's Climate Action, Sustainability, and
Environmental Justice Working Group and Free School University. It will
consist of about 15 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of discussion.
<BR><BR>A longer presentation, under the aegis of Free School University,
is currently in the works. There are also plans to organize a broader discussion
comparing different strategies for reducing carbon emissions. These are being
planned in response to statements passed by Occupy Boston's General Assembly
acknowledging the increasingly destructive impact of accumulating atmospheric
carbon emissions, and the urgent need to reduce emissions as quickly as
possible. <BR><BR><BR>For further information on fee and dividend, please see
the following links, put together by Gary Rucinski<FONT size=2><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN lang=en-us><SPAN class=175234117-12032012><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT>: <BR><SPAN
lang=en-us><BR></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><A
href="http://wiki.occupyboston.org/images/f/f3/The_Case_for_Carbon_Fee_and_Dividend.pdf"><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><U><FONT face=Arial color=#3366bb size=2>The
Case for Carbon Fee and Dividend</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN></A><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2> </FONT></SPAN> provides an overview of the economic
rationale for why we need to put a tax on the carbon in fossil fuels in order to
avoid the worst effects of climate change. It presents a specific policy
proposal called Carbon Fee and Dividend which would achieve gradually increasing
costs for fossil fuels while shielding low income households from rising energy
costs. It explains how implementation of this policy would stimulate economic
growth to help undo the effects of the Great Recession.<BR><BR><A
href="http://wiki.occupyboston.org/images/0/03/CCL_Boston_Resource_Library.pdf"><SPAN
lang=en-us><U><FONT face=Arial color=#3366bb size=2>CCL Boston Resource
Library</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></A><SPAN
lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN> provides a collection of useful links
to articles that help explain different dimensions of the problem of climate
change focused primarily on economic and policy issues rather than the science.
<BR><BR>Relevant proposals passed by the Occupy Boston's General Assembly:
<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/02/18/ob-calls-corporate-abuse-contributing-climate-change/">http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/02/18/ob-calls-corporate-abuse-contributing-climate-change/</A>
<BR><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/02/06/occupy-boston-supports-fossil-fuel-nuclear-subsidies/">http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/02/06/occupy-boston-supports-fossil-fuel-nuclear-subsidies/</A>
<BR>CASEJ wiki: <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/CASEJ">http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/CASEJ</A>
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