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Ralph Nader: "We Need a Global Carbon Tax"
From the WSJ:If President Barack Obama He ain't President yet, Ralphie wants to stop the descent toward dangerous global climate change, Hell, The One said he could stop the oceans' rise - surely he can stop the climate from changing.... and avoid the trade anarchy that current approaches to this problem will invite, As opposed to what we've got now....? he should take Al Gore's proposal for a carbon tax and make it global. So now OBambi is not only the President of the US (even though we've already got a President for the next month or so), he's king of the world? Figures. A tax on CO2 emissions With the money I don't think that means what you think it means, Ralphie.... while avoiding the prospect of unhinged environmental protectionism. Do you promise it will get rid of the unhinged "environmentalists" around the world, Ralphie? Starting with you and China emphatically opposes a hard emissions cap on its economy. That's 'cause they're smarter than you are, Ralphie. Yet China must be part of any climate deal or within 25 years, notes Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, its emissions of CO2 could amount to twice the combined emissions of the world's richest nations, including the United States, Japan and members of the European Union. And he "knows" this how, exactly....? According to the world authority on $1.375 trillion - that's undoubtedly exactly the cost of their champagne, caviar, whores, limousines, private jets, overpriced homes and apartments, and assorted bribes. How do they do it? Cap-and-traders assume, without much justification, Just like your assumptions, Ralphie. It might behoove you to remember that "assume" always begins with an ASS. that one country can put a price on carbon emissions while another doesn't without affecting trade or investment decisions. This is a bad assumption, given false comfort by the Montreal Protocol treaty, which took this approach to successfully rein in ozone-depleting gases. Chlorofluorocarbons are not pervasive like greenhouse gases (GHGs); nor was the economy of 1987 hyperglobalized like ours today. Hell, the economy of December 2008 isn't as hyperglobalized as the economy of January 2008. Good intentions lead straight to Hell, Ralphie - and I wish you and your buddies would hurry up and get there to limit big polluters in some countries but not others will turn any meaningful cap into Swiss cheese. Mmmmmm, cheese. Though Danish Havarti's better. It can be avoided by relocating existing and new production of various kinds of CO2-emitting industries to jurisdictions with no or virtually no limits. I think we've already done that, Ralphie. Do China, Thailand, Vietnam, et at., ring any bells....? This is known as carbon leakage, And your pathetic, pedantic, uninformed-by-actual-science rantings are known as bullshit leakage. I wonder where we could find a big-enough stopper.... and it leads to trade anarchy. I'm thinking we're already there. Idiot. Read the rest at the link if Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-12-03 |
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