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"Years" Season 2 aired in 171 countries
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The work of Citizens' Climate Lobby ("Safe Passage") aired Dec. 7th, 2016.
Watch "Safe Passage" now about CCL's work on Capitol Hill
Full segment (26 min.) / 5½-min. summary |
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Bradley Whitford interviews Jay Butera of CCL | |
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Why is CCL's segment called "Safe Passage?" Senator Sheldon Whitehouse explains: |
| Above: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Greg Hamra at Pinecrest Gardens climate rally - 4/25/14, the day Jay Butera came to kickstart CCL Miami. Photo by Jay. Comments from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, FL Reps. Carlos Curbelo & Ted Deutch, Jay Butera. (1-min) Below: Jay Butera & Greg Hamra, during mtg. in Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's District office - 5/22/15. Photo by the Congresswoman's Chief of Staff, Maytee Sanz.  |
The Members of Congress featured in our story, 'Safe Passage' — Rep. Carlos Curbelo, Rep. Lee Zeldin and Rep. Mia Love – were all reelected in November, 2016. After we finished filming our story, Congresswoman Love joined the Climate Solutions Caucus. yearsoflivingdangerously.com/story/safe-passage/ | #YEARSproject |
Change the price of dirty energy to reflect its true costs. Prices change behavior at all levels, from institutional to personal. (See "Price on Carbon" segment above and 2-min segmnet below: bit.ly/youth4cfd).
Behind-the-scenes segment for "Priceless" about pricing carbon:
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With a price on carbon, we wouldn't have to fight these relatively small battles for solar amendments, incentives, half-measures, and doing "less bad." Simple economics and the right plan (such as H.R. 763, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act), would result in an economy wide transition away from dirty energy. Right now dirty energy gets to pollute for free.There's ONE WAY to divert investment capital away from dirty energy and redirect it toward clean energy and low-carbon solutions: make dirty energy more expensive. This transition makes no financial sense otherwise. It will only happen after the prices change, not before.
This principle behind this revenue-neutral "carbon fee and dividend" plan is explained here.
This will begin to erradicate the biggest free lunch in history, create millions of jobs, save thousands of lives. But this transition - this capital shift will not not happen a second before changing the price. This is not only the consensus opinion of experts, economists, and world-famous climate scientists like James Hansen and Michael Mann...
It is proven. That's why economists support it so much, because they can look at real examples where prices have changed behavior. The ambition of these other programs has been limited by the fact that the largest economy in the world (the United States) has not been playing along, and has in fact been free-riding. Our biggest trading partners already have carbon prices in place. See the World Bank's Carbon Pricing Dashboard.
There's huge support for pricing carbon, just not enough.
That's where YOU come in. JOIN Citizens' Climate Lobby
Cracking Washington’s Gridlock to Save the Planet - The New York Times
