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To: Lane3 who wrote (96589)	1/24/2005 3:41:15 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) of 793670

This is a compensation system you describe. How does it prevent or mitigate future climate calamity if, indeed, that is where we're headed? Once Florida is under water, what is the advantage of rewarding or punishing your posterity and mine for your actions and mine? It simply ties ones actions to some consequences. Feedback loops are very useful. I would like to decouple the scientific arguments from the economic ones. What we see currently is mostly liberals wringing their hands about global warming with conservatives either denying that it is happening, or denying that it is largely human induced. The science of whether it is happening, and whether that is good or bad is independent of the economic costs of trying to stop it. Most likely, global warming might be good for some areas and for some inhabitants of those areas, (say the north and humans) while being quite bad in other areas for both humans and other species. If Canada became sub-tropical and boomed, while Mexico became a desert, don't you think some funds should flow to compensate?

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