Friday Movie Night - The Carbon Hunters

hot buttered popcorn It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy!

 

Carbon trading is a strange thing. The potential is a $2 trillion dollar market, based on pollute the Earth to high heaven, buy a tree for your sins. PBS Frontline goes into the rain forests where carbon is the new commodity.

FRONTLINE/World journeys to the remote rainforests of Brazil, where several American companies have been on the hunt for an increasingly valuable new commodity -- carbon. But investing in big tracts of forest in order to soak up the carbon they may have to account for in proposed energy legislation is not without its costs.

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