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How Lowering Crime Could Contribute to Global Warming
nytimes.com ^ | Aug. 3, 2016 | TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG

Posted on 08/05/2016 3:03:04 PM PDT by PROCON

It sounds simple: If something has a big carbon footprint and you get rid of it, you eliminate those carbon dioxide emissions. Right?

But it’s not always that easy. In a recent study published in The Journal of Industrial Ecology, researchers at the Center for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey in England estimated the annual carbon footprint of crime in England and Wales, and found that reducing crime could actually cause society’s overall carbon footprint of society to increase.

The findings illustrated the rebound effect, which describes how reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases in one area can lead to more emissions in the aggregate, because of direct or indirect effects. It’s something that policy makers have often been encouraged to consider when they set out to reduce emissions.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: agenda21; carbon; carbonfootprint; climatechange; crime; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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The author's "logic" is truly head-spinning.

BTW, the author, MS. Schlossberg, is the daughter of Caroline Kennedy.

Save the Erf, close the Prisons!

1 posted on 08/05/2016 3:03:04 PM PDT by PROCON
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30M illegals in the US have added greatly to warming.


2 posted on 08/05/2016 3:05:22 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Hillary's nominatin = 60's Violence. "Constant conflict is actually often good politics"-Clinton)
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Leftists are psychotic.


3 posted on 08/05/2016 3:05:31 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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Lock up all the illegals and reduce our carbon foot print.


4 posted on 08/05/2016 3:07:56 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Hillary's nominatin = 60's Violence. "Constant conflict is actually often good politics"-Clinton)
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This is an amazing article. If you follow the logic through, all citizens should live in prison-like high-density housing to reduce their carbon footprint. Sounds a lot like Agenda 21, no?


5 posted on 08/05/2016 3:08:16 PM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: PROCON

Just burst A&W onto the screen from the headline!!
rofl!!


6 posted on 08/05/2016 3:12:10 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Exactly like Agenda 21.

Marxist basturds.

7 posted on 08/05/2016 3:13:56 PM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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Head spinning?!

My head is spinning so much right now; I’m in fear of an exorcist showing up on my doorstep.

Either that, or a jack booted thug of the global warming brigade.


8 posted on 08/05/2016 3:15:04 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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sound like a Marxist term paper designed to answer the question: How to justify the high crime rate in the socialist society


9 posted on 08/05/2016 3:15:28 PM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: PROCON

What is the ladt year the NY Slimes was sane? What year did they go full on rancid tripe?


10 posted on 08/05/2016 3:15:36 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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Idiocy is rampant I see.


11 posted on 08/05/2016 3:23:56 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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another potted plant heard from...
12 posted on 08/05/2016 3:26:33 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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13 posted on 08/05/2016 3:26:54 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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liberalism is a brain disease


14 posted on 08/05/2016 3:30:29 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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Anyone who writes stuff like this should be taxed and not paid.


15 posted on 08/05/2016 3:32:23 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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The writer assumes there is global warming...there IS glo-BULL warming. The pea-brain probably flunked grade school science and logic & reasoning. If anything, there are seasons and there is weather. What an absolute blithering idiot. I hope his family disowns him for his ignorance.
16 posted on 08/05/2016 3:40:33 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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More ecography than ecology.


17 posted on 08/05/2016 3:54:43 PM PDT by onedoug
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Yes, I noticed that before I opened the thread. How much do you want to bet that this ‘journalist’ is another ‘affirmative Democrat’ hire?? The blatant incestual relationship that the Dems have with ‘journalism’ should be embarrassing.


18 posted on 08/05/2016 4:00:05 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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If crime was lower, people wouldn’t be fleeing to ever-more distant exurbs.


19 posted on 08/05/2016 4:18:52 PM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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Well .. I have concluded that these recent “global warming” people are not only whacko from constant liquor abuse for most of their lives; they are probably whacko from using weed or other forms of drugs.

There doesn’t seem to be any other reason for such lunacy.


20 posted on 08/05/2016 4:33:58 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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