Who owns the sky?
Subtitle: our common assets and the future of capitalism
By: Peter Barnes.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Air quality management -- Economic aspects -- United States; Space debris -- Economic aspects -- United States; Airspace (Law) -- United States; Climatic changes -- Government policy -- United States; Global environmental change -- Government policy -- United States; Capitalism -- United States
Description: "In Who Owns the Sky? visionary entrepreneur Peter Barnes redefines the debate about the costs and benefits of addressing climate change. He proposes a market-based institution called a Sky Trust that would set limits on carbon emissions and pay dividends to all of us, who collectively own the atmosphere as a commons. The Trust would be funded by requiring polluters to pay for the right to emit carbon dioxide and managed by a nongovernmental agency.

Dividends would be paid annually, in much the same way that residents of Alaska today receive cash benefits from oil companies that drill in their state."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: Winds of change; title: The sky is filling!; title: Selling the sky; title: Who owns the sky?; title: How a sky trust would work; title: Photo album; title: Thought experiments for economists; title: The new commons; title: Capitalism 2.0.