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The Economist is reporting on the US Military’s tactical need for “green power” war machinery. Not to save the environment, but to “unleash us from the tether of fuel.”

[From Monitor: Greenery on the march | The Economist]

Seventh Circuit Judge and University of Chicago law professor Richard Posner writes that the future losses of delaying climate change outweigh the present value of cleaning up the problem.

In other words, solving this problem makes sound economic sense.

In an effort to curb pollution, city and state governments are forming agreements with other municipal, state, and international governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions. For example, California Govnernor Arnold Schwarzenegger and British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed last week to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses and to trade carbon pollution credits (although I’m not exactly sure how this will work, since the United States, and thus California, are not parties to the Kyoto Protocol). Also last week, President Bill Clinton brokered a deal between 22 of the worlds largest cities to reduce carbon emissions by those cities.

With all of these agreements between cities, it would seem that the nation is on the right track to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and finally doing something constructive about carbon pollution, right? Wrong.
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