2019 Osher/Dover #4 Capitalism & Climate

Session Four: Capitalism and Climate

Music: Peter Gabriel, Shaking the Tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Q79lls1f0

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 #4
News: Brad Plumer, Blacki Migliozzi, "How to Cut U.S. Emissions faster? Do what theee countries are doing."NYTimes, 2/13/19      Link to article

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

Exercise:  Project Drawdown Reports

Exercise: No Impact Experiment Reports



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

Exercise: Imaging a Renewable Future

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

Readings:

• 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
• Kate Aronoff, "With a Green New Deal, Here's what the world could look like for the next generation," The Intercept, 12/5/18 Link to article
• Thomas Friedman, "The Green New Deal Rises Again," NYTimes, 1/8/19 Link to article
• Lewis & Horn-Muller, "Climate Change Hazards: How Acton like Green New Deal cold change Delaware's Future," News Journal 2/20/19, Link to article
Resources:
• Michael Blomberg & Carl Pope, "Climate of Hope: How Business, and Citizens Can Save the Planet, New York, St. Martins Press, 2017
• "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
• "Green New Deal," wikipedia, accessed 12/13/18, Link to article
• Ellen Brown, "This Radical Plan to Fund the Green New Deal Just Might Work," Yes! Magazine,12/26/18 Link to Article
• New Economy podcast, "The Green New Deal and the Shift to a New Economy," 12/2018 Link to article
• Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything,"Link to article
• Naomi Klein, "The Game-Changing Promise of a New Green Deal," Link to article
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "A Message from the Future," Sunrise Movement, link to videoFacebook

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