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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Land Shark who wrote (40103)5/26/2013 6:49:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 86356
 
As Bilow explained eloquently, you are using an old and failed argument.

You demonstrate your faulty premise about Denialists too - we are not in favour of pollution nor are we antiscience. On the contrary, we love science as the foundation of rationality [actually, reason is the foundation and science is a mechanism to which reason can be applied]. I am more against pollution than you are. If I decided that CO2 is a problem, you would find yourself saying "Oh, no need to go that far. Some CO2 is probably okay." I'd be telling you that you are not going to fly in an airliner to go scuba diving in some exotic location if you don't pay enough money to offset your despoliation of the environment.

Carbon taxes would be huge. Income taxes would be zero. So would sales taxes. Cyberspace taxes would be zero.

But it seems to me that CO2 emissions are a good thing at current rates. We can review the situation in 2100. Or, more accurately, anyone alive then can do so as you will probably not be alive and neither will nearly everyone. Those who are will likely not be buying much carbon to burn. Fusion reactors and very different lifestyles will likely mean not much carbon combustion. If there are only 2 billion people, that will reduce consumption of carbon even further.

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