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Has McCain added an environmental economist to his writing staff?

Posted on May 12, 2008

Sounds like it: For all of the last century, the profit motive basically led in one direction - toward machines, methods and industries that used oil and gas, said McCain. Enormous good came from that industrial growth, and we are all the beneficiaries of the national prosperity it built. But there were costs we weren't counting, and often hardly noticed. And these terrible costs have added up now, in the atmosphere, in the oceans and all across the natural world. Nothing new here, just a different tone.McCain's major solution is to implement a cap-and-trade program on carbon-fuel emissions,...

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