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Comment 215 for 2013 Investment Plan for Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds (2013investmentpln-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Coby
Last Name: Sjye
Email Address: coby@greens.org
Affiliation: Sierra Club, Long Beach Area Group
Subject: Please prioritize zero emissions technologies and renewable energy
Comment:
To the members of the California Air Resources Board, The Sierra Club's Mission to Explore, Enjoy and Protect the wild places on earth is facing what seem consider our most profound challenge in the face of climate change. Precious open spaces and wildlife habitats as well as endangered species we've fought so hard to protect may well be decimated by the effects of climate change, nullifying collective efforts and decades of work. It is absolutely imperative that we address climate change, and we simply don't have time for half-measures. California is clearly leading the effort in the U.S. with the passage of AB 32, and the Cap & Trade auction revenues provide a rare opportunity in the current economic climate to fund bog, bold initiatives to address this challenge. More than anything, we urge you to take bold actions and aim for the strongest measures with the highest impact, rather than feel good half-measures that won't get us where we need to be to avoid catastrophe. In particular, we urge you to focus on zero emissions transportation technologies and net-zero emissions renewable energy. Although a 33% RPS is an improvement over where we were in years past, we need 90+% renewable to make the kind of cuts in GHG emissions needed to get our emissions under control. Although we have finally brought back a modest ZEV program, almost as aggressive as it was in the 1990's, we need to rapidly replace the millions of cars, trucks and trains that move goods and people using fossil fuels with ones that can be powered by our newer, cleaner, smarter grid. We can make rapid changes, the kind America made during World War II, if we face climate change as the kind of disaster than can have as much or more of an impact as Nazi Germany. Start with the largest users and systems, not just to cover under a Cap & Trade system that gets us back to 1990 levels (which were still far too high), but to provide large scale carrots and sticks that would allow them to scrap and replace polluting systems entirely. Please lead the country and the world to a place where we can truly be sustainable, in terms of our carbon emissions, our environmental footprint, and our social safety net.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2013-03-08 13:53:19
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