Isn't  corporate greed what got us into this dilemna?  Many in the politically connected end of the environmental movement seem to have an unwritten disdain for the less practical end of the community.  We who tend to distrust cap and trade carbon pricing.

As Joe Romm says here in Grist, setting out what he believes to be a necessary condition to fix GHG climate disaster.

"Major price change, to add a cost to emitting greenhouse gases that approximates the terrible damage done by them."

I know he are talking about carbon pricing and trading.  Because he  (and every other expert in this area) believe that the only way to really get the move to renewables and conservation done is to use market forces.

And you all believe that the only way to move markets is to get corporate leadership to go along.  And the only way to do that is to give them a bottomline reason, because that is the only motivation in the corporate world.

Corporate greed is neither good or bad, but it is reality?  Isn't that how the argument proceeds?  Corporate control of our economy and government is the reality and it will never change.

I think it is possible to generate that bottomline reason without opening up yet another venue for corporate control and hedge fund trading.

Simple subsidy diversion prices carbon.  The big energy corporations will go along eventually.  

Of course you will say it is politically impossible to take subsidies away from energy corporations (and their manufacturing adjuncts, that make  autos, power plants, appliances, homes, food) and direct them to we the people.

And on the other hand, carbon trading already has the support of a lot of CEOs.  But why do they support it?  Because it's another tactic that they can game.

Subsidy diversion in the form of a direct payment to homeowners, farmers, and small businesses that install renewable energy devices lke solar panels, wind machines, and farm biogas power plants; and conservation devices like geo heat exchange heating/cooling and plugin hybrid vehicles:  can move markets without the risk of hedge fund scamming.

Can we afford a crisis, like this mortgage crisis, created by hedge fund corruption, in the venue of a GHG climate crisis cure.