It is a marketing ploy. The product is development of a new tax base, not to replace existing taxes, abut a fertile new source of revenue. Also, these “carbon credits” will become a fine new market for international trading, a way to shift wealth from the affluent to the underdeveloped countries.
For the multilateralists, a win-win.
Just follow the money and you will see where global warming leads you. Just exactly what is a “Carbon Credit”? Is it something you can hold in your hand or just a figment of your imagination and something that just makes you feel like you are doing something?
It is also a way to reduce the world leverage of the oil exporting countries, primarily Arab.
Not that I object to the latter, but deception, manipulation, scientific mendacity, is not the way to do it; given that the intelligent people are going to see through the whole thing, and become more cynical than ever about the global politics.
Watch the Council on Foreign Relations. These are ugly people. Arrogant yuppies, kinda, those who know what's best for everyone, yet couldn't tell you the actual molecular weight of the gases they indict.
I wish someone would expand on this theme. People who advocate government expansion are no different from those working in other industries; product/service development is an ongoing process.
Socialism should simply be recognized as merely a front for governmental "entrepreneurs". Selling socialism through disaffection via class envy, environmental alarmism, etc is really no different than PG assuring consumers that their smiles will be brighter if they buy new Crest with special formula XYZ.
“It is a marketing ploy”
You said it! Everything this spring is about environmentalism. The little girls purses say Green is beautiful, Green is the new black (like little black dress), makeup is now getting into the act with all “natural green” ingredients, cars are now getting into the act, you can’t get away from it, it’s everywhere you look....I wish it would go away just like every other stupid fad! But I fear this time we’ll be stuck with it for years until we have a new ice age, and then we’ll be blamed for that! Science doesn’t know for sure, anyone besides me remember Carl Sagan predicting a world wide deep freeze if Saddam set the oil fields on fire??? Poor Carl, he was so wrong, but he’d probably be on the GW bandwagon if he were still alive.
“It is a marketing ploy”
You said it! Everything this spring is about environmentalism. The little girls purses say Green is beautiful, Green is the new black (like little black dress), makeup is now getting into the act with all “natural green” ingredients, cars are now getting into the act, you can’t get away from it, it’s everywhere you look....I wish it would go away just like every other stupid fad! But I fear this time we’ll be stuck with it for years until we have a new ice age, and then we’ll be blamed for that! Science doesn’t know for sure, anyone besides me remember Carl Sagan predicting a world wide deep freeze if Saddam set the oil fields on fire??? Poor Carl, he was so wrong, but he’d probably be on the GW bandwagon if he were still alive.