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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (123778)7/21/2010 9:45:55 AM
From: Freedom Fighter   of 132070
 
KT,

One point he makes I agree with is that there is no major downside to doing things that are favorable for the environment even if over the long haul it turns out there wouldn't have been an extreme impact from global warming anyway.

Environmental costs are not captured by GAAP accounting. So passing those costs onto businesses and consumers via energy taxes and regulations or via incentives for superior better behavior would be a way correcting the accounting situation while also getting better economic/environmental results.

The one thing he leaves out is that part of the reason it has been so difficult to get a consensus on whether global warming is man made or naturally occurring is that so many people on the left lie, cheat, spin etc... (and even on this issue) in order to implement their policies, no one believes them.

Once you go down that path, you become like the "boy that cried wolf". Everyone knows you are a bullshitting scumbag and they don't believe anything you say.

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