{"id":11981,"date":"2013-12-14T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=11981"},"modified":"2013-12-14T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:54:31","slug":"yoram-bauman-gar-w-lipow-lecture-tesc-103013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/yoram-bauman-gar-w-lipow-lecture-tesc-103013\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoram Bauman & Gar W. Lipow Lecture @ TESC 10\/30\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yoram Bauman, Ph.D. (economics) came to The Evergreen State College (TEST) on 10\/30\/13 in Olympia, WA to lecture as a proponent for carbon taxes in an effort to save the planet from global climate collapse.<\/p>\n

Yoram bills himself as the world’s first and only stand-up economist with over 1 million hits on YouTube. He performs at colleges, corporations, and comedy clubs around the world. His PhD in economics is from the University of Washington and he teaches part-time at UW, at Lakeside High School in Seattle, and at Bainbridge Graduate Institute. He studies the economics of climate change and thinks carbon taxes can save the world.<\/p>\n

He grew up in San Francisco, received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, then attended graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, receiving his Ph.D. in Economics in 2003.<\/p>\n

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Bauman is an ‘environmental economist’, working as a teacher at the University of Washington, in the Program on the Environment, Bainbridge Graduate School, and Lakeside School. He is the co-author of the 1998 book, Tax Shift, which advocates switching taxation from income and property to resource consumption.<\/p>\n

Bauman proved brittle for a ‘comedienne’ when challenged on the morality of applying a ‘tax’ to CO2 emissions as the critic compared it to tax dioxin emissions or any other catastrophic environmental pollutant. A shift from taxing income and property for resource consumption might prove attractive to those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, but appears to fly in the face of the primary argument in favor of capitalism’s existence as the dominant current form of economies the world over. Mr. Bauman didn’t provide an opportunity for a follow up question regarding whether taxing bad\/destructive behavior doesn’t constitute tacit approval for those who can afford to indulge in it. Capitalism currently affords rewards and protections for the most conspicuous\/gluttonous consumption despite some taxation on accumulated wealth\/property. His proposal would remove even that limited barrier to insufferable displays of consumption at the expense of the dispossessed with a system designed to increase privilege by allowing those most favored capitalists to deplete the world’s resources, pollute the environment, and letting the Devil take the hindmost for want of them keeping up with the more financially secure Jones. The ‘diamond lane’ perversity of allowing single occupant vehicles whose drivers can afford it to utilize what the rest must refrain from doing under penalty of law would be visited in a far more pernicious form to how resources, including activities like air\/water\/environmental pollution, would be distributed. Once again, the wealthy would find themselves in the catbird seat while those with less wherewithal would be relegated to subsisting on ever fewer scraps, gasping for a breath of clean air and fighting debilitating illnesses from unclean water.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bauman freely admitted his approach to the science of economics was amoral. His co-lecturer, Nobel Laureate Gar W. Lipow, who has authored Cooling A Fevered Planet, defended his colleague’s position on the subject of permitting continued emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere through a scheme of taxes, cap & trade, and those machination within existing financial empires planning on taking full advantage of such schemes.<\/p>\n

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