State's anti-global warming effort at crossroads - SignOnSanDiego.com

Bryan Bloom, who owns Priority Moving in San Diego, said he is bracing for higher costs that will kill expansion and hiring plans if Proposition 23 fails.

“The cost of energy will go up,” he said. “I can’t run my trucks on solar or wind.”
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It’s not all about money, opponents of Proposition 23 say. Reducing carbon emissions cuts harmful pollutants that can exacerbate illnesses, from asthma to heart disease.

“This is one of the great public health advances of the 21st Century,” said Michael Kelly, a retired doctor living in San Diego.”

Gordon Brown: Climate Change Action Is Economic Common Sense

And the fight has never been more urgent. The future is coming to meet us now: there are new climate change refugees and evacuees every day. This week I spoke to the past Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai about the terrible loss of livelihoods occurring through deforestation -- and about our need to move forward reforestation initiatives in the Congo Basin, Amazon and Borneo.
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A carbon price of 20-30 Euros per ton of CO2 -- on a par with the expected 2050 oil price -- would make such a decarbonized power system no more expensive than a carbonized system -- but much cleaner and more employment friendly.
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Those of us at the vanguard of climate change action have always understood that the environment is beyond price. Without a clean and sustainable world we will simply cease to be.

Introducing 100:100 and 290.org | Real Science

In order to get to get to 290 ppm, which Mann very clearly shows as the tipping point, we all need to reduce our CO2 emissions by 100%.