Farms: Changing the dialogue on energy and climate: Bob Inglis at TEDxJacksonville
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Although he hales from the reddest district of the reddest state in the United States of America, Bob Inglis tells a story of how he came to appreciate the threat of climate change and how he believes the solution lies in the bedrock principals of conservatism. Bob Inglis is the Executive Director of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative based at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Inglis founded and launched the national, grassroots organization in July 2012. E&EI is guided by the conservative principles of free enterprise and economic growth, limited government, liberty, accountability and reasonable risk avoidance to solve our nation's energy and climate challenges. Inglis represented South Carolina's Fourth Congressional District (Greenville, Spartanburg, Union counties) for 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives (1993-98 and 2005-10). He was first elected to Congress in 1992 after having never run for public office. He spent six years in the U.S. House and unsuccessfully challenged Democratic U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1998. In the fall of 2004, he was re-elected to the open House seat he had previously held and went on to serve another six-year stint in Congress. In the midst of the financial crisis in 2010, he lost his bid for re-election. Inglis grew up in Bluffton, SC, graduated from Duke University with a degree in political science and earned his law degree from the University of Virginia. He and his wife Mary Anne have five children and live on a small farm in northern Greenville County, South Carolina. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Bob Inglis offers hope for bridging the gap and bringing about a sensible bi-partisan plan for Climate Change mitigation. He's arguably the most important American leader not currently in an elected position and this is an absolute shame. He'd be #1 on my list of cabinet members were I Clinton or Trump. We need Bob Inglis in this world. Badly.
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This is what integrity looks like.
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"DANGEROUS" climate change exists only in climate models and the imaginations of the folks that want/need to believe in it. Whereas "MILD WARMING" caused by added co2 exists in real measured data. The simple facts are the models have been proven wrong on every level and they refuse to re-evaluate the hypothesis. Just as the co2 rates really started to climb after WWII, we had global cooling, you remember the scare in the early 70's. Then we had a bit of warming for about the same amount of time. Now after a full 1/3 of all co2 man has put in the atmosphere, a time when temperatures were supposed to accelerate on the warming side, we get nothing, virtually no warming for the last 20 years. Instead we global greening, to date any effects have been positive and there is no reason it won't continue this way.
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When I listen to this guy - a reasoned man of integrity, with world experience, clear conservative chops, and a plan that could eat the Democrats' political lunch - I have to wonder where the hell this cycle's stable of Republican presidential candidates have come from.
I mean, if the Republicans have men like this available to them, why have they selected the ridiculous parodies, before settling on the most ridiculous candidate - Trump - when they could have a good conservative candidate? -
saw this for first time now. Inglis is a man of integrity. Republicans are going to lose voters if they don't get on this. DIsillusioned with christians who have turned away from this Issue. Inglis is a true Christian because he was williing to sacrifice power to do the right thing. His kids will turn out better as a result of seeing his dad like this. I get to hold him up as a role model to my kids.
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Execution, management and policy making (not to mention law enforcement and carriage of justice) is uncharted territory with this line of thinking, and thus volatile and susceptible to collusion and other things of that ilk (loud mouthed culture norming also being one of them). Something all too familiar these days. So before we can implement Bob Inglis' vision, we need to deal with these "afflictions" specific to climate change issues, first.
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As the costs of inaction mount the conservatives will be forced by the people and businesses affected to do what Inglis advocates.
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Where are these reasonable voices in the Republican Party these days? They've all been chased away by the shrill, selfish fear-mongers I'm afraid. We are in desperate need of more reasonable voices. Here is a man of ideas and ideals, but with ideals that are much more in keeping with what's best and brightest about our more noble nature. Inglis is one of the few voices that can keep me from a wholesale departure from the Tea-Stained Republican Party. Keep up the great work, Bob!
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Didn't work in Australia... With ALEC, Koch Bros and Heartland Institute running their disinformation campaigns (as Google says "they're just lying" and they are) you have a disaster that is currently descended upon our nation.
Thank you Republicans.
Nice talk Bob, you can go back and smoke your cigar now. -
Independent party presidential candidate...you got my vote.
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I don't see how this is a win for Republicans since their song-and-dance number for so long is that's it's all a hoax, scientists can't be trusted and God won't let the planet be destroyed.
How are they going to walk back all that? -
Way to Go Bob! See you in June with CCL
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Thank you for opening your mind – for looking into facts, and getting past personal ideological differences between you and Al Gore. Please consider joining Citizens Climate Lobby since we have a revenue-neutral carbon offset proposal similar to yours. Please join!
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Good luck with appealing to conservatives. I hope we get some legislative action before it is too late. Time is of the essence.
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Mr. Inglis, I wish you well. A billion dollars for anti-science from Koch and friends will make your task difficult, regardless of the sanity of your proposal and the fit with conservative thought. Or the deaths from delay.
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"We think we can win at the WTO" (rough quote)
Well, that would be the crux of the matter. I think you need to get some certainty on this point before you proceed.
Me, I don't see it as a given. It seems to expect either special consideration because it is global warming or for the WTO to allow one country to include externalities into tariffs. That is likely to have all sorts of surprising an unpredicted consequences.
The other challenge I see is complicated will be to calculate the carbon price. Will it require a new organization the size of the EPA to administer? Will it require subjective judgements? If so, I assure you the stakes are high enough to be a magnet for rent-seeking and corruption. -
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Brilliant!