Capitalism and Climate

Session Five: Capitalism and Climate

Music: Hot Hot Hot - Arrowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7l40Prwixc

Essential Questions:

• What role will the free market play in responding to climate change?
• What are some example of free-market forces that are creating a decarbonized future?
• What are some examples where fossil-free markets are inhibited by existing carbon interests?
• What is Cap and Trade? The Carbon Tax?

Rick's Rap

• EQ • Optimist Daily/news • homework

Gathering: " A question that I have from the reading is..."

Speaker: Bernard David, Chairman, CO2 Initiative, San Francisco, Ca. www.globalco2initiative.org

Speaker: Charlie Garlow, Citizens Climate Lobby https://citizensclimatelobby.org

Video: Naomi Klein, interview, Real Time, September, 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vi26l8T1c0

Closing: "Something that I learned today was..."

Readings:
• "Price on Carbon Study," Summary of Findings 2015-2016, League of Women Voters of Delaware
http://lwvdelaware.org/files/2016_price_on_carbon_study_summary.pdf
• "Global CO2 Initiative, www.globalco2initiative.org
• Rob Nixon, "Naomi Klein's This changes Everything," Sunday Book Review, NY Times, 11/6/14https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/naomi-klein-this-changes-everything-review.html?_r=0
Resources:
• Michael Blomberg & Carl Pope, "Climate of Hope: How Business, and Citizens Can Save the Planet, New York, St. Martins Press, 2017


Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task.
                                                 Richard Branson