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To: Lane3 who wrote (96659)	1/24/2005 11:48:10 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793681

Where I think we're having some confusion is, in part, that global warming isn't such a direct cause and effect. Which is precisely why I proposed a market type mechanism to deal with it. Monetarize all of ones actions. But where we're really talking past each other is over the temporal difference. No, I want to address the longer term issues. The effects of any individual do wash out with time, so the monetarization must reflect that. And, in any event, I may not have descendants in a position to provide compensation. That depends on the implementation. I would assign transaction info (almost like genes) to every monetary transaction. Anyone that interacts with you monetarily inherits some fraction of your actions. So your monetary legacy in not simply your heirs. Tinkering with the interaction rates would be like tinkering with gains in a control system. Lots of analysis required. Your proposal doesn't seem practical to me. Impossible to implement. The compute power and storage requirements to track every financial transactions of a persons life are not great. The difficulty would be in getting people to agree to anything so intrusive. Besides being impractical, it doesn't do anything to stop global warming. Which is the point, isn't it? It ties behaviour to consequences. Some people can't think long term. Some can. The wise ones should prosper long term. I suppose one could get even more intrusive and link reproduction of you and your heirs to how well you pick the long term issues. It saddens me that future generations won't be able to dive on coral reefs. Coral reefs have given me so much pleasure. But future generations will thrive on other things, things unimaginable to me. That's natural. I like coral reefs too. The difference between us is that I actually do something there disappearance. Why roll over and play dead?