Can you believe this? Bill Richardson has written a truly exciting book. This is the book we've been waiting for - the one that takes us from the stage of awareness that Al Gore produced two years ago to the society that takes control of destiny and begins to live in global wealth, health and security.
Richardson begins by describing the existing current lag in leadership. America needs to reposition its image in the spirit that it has long held. Sacrifice and inspiration are essential to that image. With the image and presence of a compassionate America, nations will succeed in lifting themselves from tyranny, depression, illness and tragedy. We cannot afford to confuse our image as a people - that image that produces inspiration through compassion - with one that will overrun other nations to satisfy an addiction for oil.
Richardson will use the power of the markets to drive America to destiny. In the words of Richardson: "The power of markets is immense. That is one of the great lessons - besides democracy and human rights - that the United States has taught the world over the past two centuries. The market has the power not only to create individual prosperity and growth, as conceived by the great first-ever modern economist, Adam Smith, but also to achieve big things for society as a whole. If we manage the carbon markets sensibly, with strict limits, smart incentives, and practical oversight - as we manage the monetary supply via the Federal Reserve - we can see a market-based economy that actually works toward REDUCING pollution."
Along with markets, the government must play a role - one that will provide sophisticated, integrated, and compassionate policies. The goal of government is to keep the dynamic of a proper functioning market going. Government assists with competition and choice while representing all of the true interests of the citizens. Richardson describes strategies of jawboning, holding to principles, standing to commitments, and using the bully pulpit. Federal government will do well to learn from states and cities. A set of federal Climate Challenge block grants that reward innovation would be part of Richardson's program. Other goals adopted in New Mexico include energy efficiency, green building, renewable energy, green transportation, renewable fuels, incentives, and overarching climate change action.
Richardson has been described as the Democratic Libertarian. Much of what Richardson describes is a reformation and restoration of capitalist principles for a new century. Says Richardson, "All goods cost something to make, and it matters what gets calculated in the cost, whether it's raw materials, human rights, defending oil transportation routes, or damage to the environment that needs to be cleaned up. Until all those things are factored in, you don't really have the true cost." That makes sense to me. True Libertarian values are grounded in wise capitalist principles. However, until we've become free from cynicism, that is, until we've become perceptive enough to account for all values in the face of other prices, we cannot make honest dealings that are consistent with the true spirit of our capitalist enterprises. It's no wonder that Lee Iacocca likes this guy. Iacocca knows leadership, and Richardson brings it.
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