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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (87497)11/21/2004 1:21:28 AM
From: TimF   of 793895
 
True Tim, but that doesn't mean free trade is always a good thing or that any amount of CO2 is a bad thing. I dispute both ideas. Some things have optimums with more or less than the optimum being worse.

I think the amount of CO2 people are producing might actually be a good thing, not a bad thing, and that there is too much "free trade" and that taxes should be collected at borders, which define governments.

Its possible that the CO2 being emitted now is a good thing, but at this point the evidence suggests it is not. As for free trade I think it is pretty much always a good thing. You might carve off exceptions for things like nuclear weapons, or perhaps even cocaine but with rare exceptions I think free trade makes the world as a whole richer.

My main point though wasn't to argue the conventional wisdom about free trade or greenhouse gasses, but rather to argue that you can't take such principles, throw in a few observed facts, and than expect to predict the future years or decades out in either economics or weather/climate.

Tim
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