Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:33:01 -0600, "tlmfru" <lacey@xxxxxxx> wrote:

What's really, really dumb is to pretend that carbon/emission credit trading
is going to do anything to solve the problem. (You haven't said this, so
you needn't respond if you don't want to). Book-keeping, which is what this
is, won't do anything. As it is done now, emission credits are just a
license to pollute. If there was true political courage anywhere in the
world, polluters would be fined so heavily that they couldn't afford NOT to
clean up. Especially if they couldn't pass it along to their customers.

There are some possibilities here when they cause behavior changes.
For instance, if a business can pay farmers to plow corn stalks under
the ground.

What's interesting now is the negotiations going on trying to
determine what might work politically when it's time to replace the
Kyoto Accords.
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