Friday Movie Night - The Carbon Hunters
Submitted by Robert Oak on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 23:32
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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