Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Modest proposals from Duff Badgley, Green Party candidate for Washington governor

Reject basketball, end pollution
Our governor must convene a climate emergency session of the Legislature now to enact emergency World War II type mobilization laws:

# Divert Boeing from airplanes and war machinery to solar, wind and wave power equipment.

# Vastly increase public transport system (low-income citizens ride free).

# Outlaw single-occupancy vehicles, except where no public transport exists.

# Impose corporate carbon taxes rising to $500 per ton by 2020. Assess progressive personal carbon taxes rising to $500 per ton by 2020; low-income residents exempted from tax.

# Establish strict carbon caps for industry, regions and government. Outlaw carbon trading. Begin personal carbon rationing. Direct carbon tax funds to poor to offset high food, housing and transportation costs. Direct carbon tax funds to global rainforest protection and other global south recipients.
If this guy gets more than one vote, I may demand a recount.

1 comment:

April E. Coggins said...

I live in Washington state. The voters guide is always good for a laugh. This guy will probably list on his college resume that he is a former candidate for governor. That, and he was a call-in guest on the national news show, Coast to Coast.