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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (25220)	9/11/2009 1:27:22 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 36918

Vint, you aren't supposed to think about those silly day to day woes like bankruptcy, going to work, paying the electricity bill, having a broken leg repaired, getting a heart stent inserted. Al Gore and the Global Warming crowd want you to worry about what really matters = 20cm sea level rise and 2 degrees Celsius by 2100 when your great great great grandchildren will have to play a metre further up the beach to avoid going out of their depth. You should cancel all that spending you are planning and put the money towards CO2 sequestration, alternative energy sources, conservation and preferably an early demise to reduce the pressure on the world's resources. We should not be selfish, but should think instead of 3 generations hence. Mqurice

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (25220)	9/11/2009 9:07:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 36918

Quarter of a century after I first suggested a carbon tax as the best solution if there is a problem with CO2 emissions, President Sarkozy and France are adopting the idea. independent.co.uk To put a finer point on it, a carbon tax on imported carbon would make more sense as it would put more impetus into local economic development. To put an even finer point on it, imported products could be taxed instead of local production to avoid the carbon just being sent around a loop from Iran to China and then into France [via the ice-free North Pole] in the form of aluminium, iron and other materials full of energy from carbon. Also, cut government spending so that the carbon taxes become a higher proportion of total government spending, making the impetus to avoid those taxes by avoiding burning carbon greater. Mqurice