Nathan

Please on all that is holy please let's just #taxcarbon already:

'With distressing images of weather-related disasters saturating the news media, climate change no longer seems such a distant and abstract worry — except, perhaps, in Washington. In 2009, President Obama persuaded House Democrats, then in the majority, to pass a bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Facing a Republican filibuster in the Senate, however, the legislation died. And its prospects dimmed further when Republicans took control of the House in 2010. Mr. Obama has remained relatively silent on the issue since then.'

I have no patience for the fight about or against global climate change. I don't give a fuck where you fall on this 'debate'. Carbon is plain and simple pollution. You would not allow your neighbor to just dump trash into the street, but just because you can't feel, see or touch carbon directly doesn't mean it is any better or worse than the trash your neighbor throws into your yard. Tax that shit and stop it. Do it for the kids and the kids' kids. Now.

Well put: The Feds went after two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers for lying and self-dealing at the dawn of the crisis and lost the case. Since then, everything's been a settlement - where everyone gets to write checks from their corporate coffers and deny wrongdoing. This does nothing to appease the throngs of spectators watching from the cheap seats. This week in New York, a jury found a Citigroup drone not guilty of mortgage fraud but rather than send a signal to The Street that they were satisfied, this jury wrote a letter to the government begging them to prosecute bank CEOs. This was a first, and it happened five years later. What does that tell you about the public's desire for closure and for the guilty to be punished? We don't want it, we need it. We cannot move forward until there is a sense that loose ends have been addressed, until then we're simply still in the crisis phase, we will not - as a society - accept that it's over yet.