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</span>If corporations wish really to be part of the solution, they, like Nike and Starbucks, need to press for systemic changes which lead toward full transition to renewable energy soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Greenwash can be used to maintain the status quo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/corporate-sustainability-is-not-sustainable/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&sub_email=atilley@unf.edu"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/climate-energy/corporate-sustainability-is-not-sustainable/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&sub_email=atilley@unf.edu</font></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A requirement that fossil fuel power producers sequester an increasing percentage of the carbon they produce would cut emissions and help return some of the externalized costs to the corporations now profiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The move would be legislatively (though not politically) simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It would drastically improve the economics of a transition to renewable energy, which would be that much more comparatively cheap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/05/bury-co2-problem-capture-store-carbon"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/05/bury-co2-problem-capture-store-carbon</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Since we do not yet know how to sequester carbon except in special situations, the effect would be to ban much current carbon production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It would likely produce a transition faster than a carbon tax.<o:p></o:p></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>More than 40 countries have now placed, or are placing, a price on carbon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Exxon’s Rex Tillerson (“What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?”) even likes the idea, so long as Exxon Mobil gets the revenues, heaven forbid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://grist.org/news/carbon-pricing-is-catching-on-around-the-globe-just-not-in-washington-d-c/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://grist.org/news/carbon-pricing-is-catching-on-around-the-globe-just-not-in-washington-d-c/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>A reflection on Tillerson’s opinion of rescuing the earth:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/30/2076751/exxon-ceo-what-good-is-it-to-save-the-planet-if-humanity-suffers/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/30/2076751/exxon-ceo-what-good-is-it-to-save-the-planet-if-humanity-suffers/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tillerson’s full quotation: </font>
</font><a href="http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/exxon-mobil-trumps-alarmists/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/exxon-mobil-trumps-alarmists/</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A new ad campaign against a carbon tax in the US indicates that fossil fuel interests are worried about the prospect of a carbon tax (in spite of President Obama’s opposition to the idea).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/06/americans-for-prosperity-carbon-tax"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/06/americans-for-prosperity-carbon-tax</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Scientific American surveys the decline of reefs worldwide from the effects of climate disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/expeditions/2013/06/05/the-effects-of-climate-change-on-coral-reef-health/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/expeditions/2013/06/05/the-effects-of-climate-change-on-coral-reef-health/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Japan is set to become the world’s largest solar power market in 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></font><a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/04/japanese-solar-industry-soaring/"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/04/japanese-solar-industry-soaring/</font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The federal government just raised the estimated social cost of emitting carbon by 60%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>One effect is to raise the amount of carbon mitigation which can be justified.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/06/americans-for-prosperity-carbon-tax"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/06/americans-for-prosperity-carbon-tax</font></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3" face="Calibri">
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