Dr Hansen further says ‘Grandfathering of fossil fuel plants and any ineffectual ‘cap and trade’ scheme, should it be initiated, will necessarily be replaced by ‘cap and bulldoze’. Un-captured CO2 emissions from coal must be eliminated.

Clean Coal / Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

“Clean coal’ is like a healthy cigarette,’” says Blan Holman, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center. “It doesn’t exist.”

Business Week says “The catch is that for now—and for years to come—”clean coal” will remain more a catch-phrase than a reality.”

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Nuclear

Nuclear power only provides 3 per cent of India’s energy at present and this will rise to 7 per cent with all the additional nuclear power plants which the US, France and Russia, among others perhaps, will supply.
The Planning Commission itself has admitted the contribution of nuclear power to the total installed generating capacity by 2031-32 will be only about 5%.

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CDM

In march 2007 Newsweek reported ‘So far , the real winners in emissions trading have been polluting factory owners who can sell menial cuts for massive profits and the brokers who can sell fees each time a company buys or sells the right to pollute.

An investigation by Nick Davies of the Gaurdian found that the CDM had been ‘contaminated by gross incompetence, rule breaking and possible fraud by companies in the developing world, according to UN paperwork, an unpublished expert report and an alarming feedback from projects on the incinerator in China that was built to burn rather than emit hydroflurocarbon gases were sold to european investors for $500 million.

Instead of stimulating new investment in the best green technologies, such as renewable energy, the CDM has mainly granted carbon credits to projects that would have been built anyway, such as large hydro and wind projects. A December 2007 study of the 654 hydro projects at various projects found blatant and widespread non-additionality. More than one-third of the large hydro-electirci schemes that had been approved for credits were already completed before CDM approval, the majority of the projects (89 percent) were expected to be completed within a year following approval; and almost all (96 percent) were expected to be completed within two years. If you consider the long lead time for hydro construction. It becomes apparent that those projects were going to happen anyway.

Carbon Trading -

European union emissions trading scheme got off a horrible start the initial permit pool was too large because of the business lobbying , and permissions were given away as rewards to the biggest polluters, These businesses then realised that they had more permits than they needed, so they sold them at huge profits. When everyone realized what had happened, the price of permits collapsed. As the price collapsed, so did the impetus for some viable CDM projects.

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Pruthvi Story - Fake Remedies

“The witch(bush) doctor’s bashing, marriage to the village banyan Tree, holy dip in the ganga, prayers to Ganesh, doctors medicine – none cured pruthvi from his allergy to Cola. Rather contributed to the probelm” – Cola Vs Coal

Similarly our best efforts of clearing out forest and putting palm oil plantations to make more bio-diesel or to give more money and subsidies to Oil and Coal companies to bring down prices or creating schemes where polluters are the only ones making money – none of this is working to save life on earth – and earth has already slipped into emergency