Here is a solution to the Climate Crisis that you and Bill Schulz and the Pope wrote about.


I am a member of Citizens Climate Lobby whose purpose is to lobby Congress to adopt the Carbon Fee/ Dividend proposal. Last week we had 900 lobbyist in Washington DC doing our very best.


(by the way, of our 2000 members, 25% are Unitarian Universalists)


The official two page proposal is here:

http://dv7gcmvxe5e8l.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Carbon-Fee-and-Dividend-April-2014.pdf


A four page summary of the detailed model study is here:

http://citizensclimatelobby.org/remi-report/


Briefly stated, a fee of 15$ per ton of CO2 produced is charged when a fossil fuel is extracted or imported. The fee goes up 10$ per year.


The money from the fees are distributed 100%, monthly, to every household equally so that people can afford the slightly higher costs. In fact, the 60% of the less affluent households will have more than enough, so there is a touch of Robin Hood here. CO2 emissions are cut by 50%


​This proposal should appeal to those who hate regulations because all the decisions about energy would be made by individuals and companies. The free market reigns as guided by the rising cost of fossil fuels.


There are constructive side effects above the base case:

Over the 20 years there will be 250,000 fewer deaths due to pollution.

The GDP is increased by $1.4 trillion.

2 million jobs are created

​Do you want to solve the climate crisis? Well here you go​. This is how the economists would do it.


Please have someone call if there are any questions. 704-367-1895 Or a spokesperson from CCL would give a fine presentation to UUA staff.