Climate Week NYC: Watch General Wes Clark assess the strategic impact of climate change.

[elleng]

'The military has called Climate Change the “mother of all strategic challenges.”

Speaking Monday night at the Explorers Club as part of Climate Week NYC, General Wesley Clark – once Supreme Allied NATO Commander during the Kosovo war, Medal of Honor recipient, and Democratic Presidential candidate – gave a rundown of the strategic implications of climate change, and called for some hard actions – including a carbon tax.

“If you want to take action, here’s what you’ve got to do: Number ONE is you’ve got to put a price on carbon,” he said. “And it’s gotta escalate. So if it starts at $50 a ton which is about 50 cents a gallon for gasoline, you’ve got to get it to $250 a ton. And then you’ve gotta get it to $500 a ton. And you’ve gotta get it to $1000 a ton. You’ve got to give the market time to respond and create incentives.”

So not jumping up to $1000 in 5 years, but maybe in 20…

“You can’t solve this problem without market incentives. So, you don’t want to call it a tax, call it a charge. Call it an invoice. But you must have a price signal.”

Because we don’t have a command economy, like the Chinese.

“That’s not our economy. That’s not the world we live in. I hope.”'

http://redgreenandblue.org/2018/09/25/climate-week-nyc-watch-general-wes-clark-assess-strategic-impact-climate-change/

[BigmanPigman]

1. That's an interesting idea.

Charging a tax isn't liked, but it works.