MAKE POLLUTERS
PAY US
To see this video directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lBWNuZCefU
Instead
of investing in dirty fuels, let’s start charging polluters for poisoning our
skies – and then invest the revenue so that it benefits everyone.
Each
ton of carbon that’s released into the atmosphere costs our nation between $40
and $100, and we release millions tons of it every year.
Businesses
don’t pay that cost. They pass it along to the rest of us—in the form of more
extreme weather and all the costs to our economy and health resulting from
it.
This
has got to be reversed.
We
can clean our environment and strengthen
the economy if we (1) divest from carbon polluters, (2) make the polluters pay
a price to pollute, and (3) then collect the money.
ROBERT
B. REICH, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of
California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing
Economies, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time Magazine
named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth
century. He has written thirteen books, including the best sellers
“Aftershock" and “The Work of Nations." His latest, "Beyond
Outrage," is now out in paperback. He is also a founding editor of the
American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause. His new film,
"Inequality for All," is now available on Netflix, iTunes, DVD, and
On Demand.