Bright lining

Lines that are bright, how we love them

Posted by David Roberts at 5:04 PM on 17 Jan 2007

Bill McKibben's Step It Up 2007 campaign (read his dispatches) is trying to rally a bunch of simultaneous protests pushing a single goal: reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 80% by 2050.

This approach -- picking a goal rather than supporting specific legislation -- is known as bright lining, and it's something you're going to hear a lot more about on this site fairly soon (stay tuned!). I'm a big fan. What if we could get every green group to agree on a bright line?What if we could get a social and political consensus on a target? Then policymakers could hash out whose strategy is best for reaching the target. Why, ass would be kicked, I tell you!

Along the same lines (via Worldchanging), Environment Northeast recently came out with a Climate Change Roadmap for New England and Eastern Canada, aimed at reducing that region's emissions 75% by 2050. Here are its nine main planks:

Invest in Energy Efficiency Resources
Increase Energy Efficiency of Buildings
Increase Energy Efficiency of Appliances
Reduce Emissions from Large Stationary Sources
Commercialize and Deploy No-Carbon and Low-Carbon Energy Sources
Transition to No-Carbon or Low-Carbon Transportation Fuels
Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Light-Duty Vehicles
Reduce Emissions from Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Sequester Carbon in Terrestrial Sinks
Capture and Store of Carbon Dioxide from Energy and Industrial Sources

Sounds good to me. What do you think?

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