[SonOfDarkSkies]

In defense of "cap and trade", a family member who leans slightly liberal said "but the world cannot continue to devastate the rain forests and dump waste into the rivers and oceans.

My response to her was "but what part of Cap and Trade is it that you think will address these problems?"

She was dumbstruck.

Cap and Trade is a bait and switch to capitalize on "environmental pathos" to suck capital out of an unsuspecting world. Al Gore and the Enviro-Robber-Barons are essentially saying "the environment is under attack, give us your money!"

They are like a charity that shows pictures of starving children so they can reap contributions that somehow never get deliver to said starving children.

[cripplecreek]

Ask the family member what she thinks about paying "big air" for the privilage of breathing.

“Once you price CO2 and put a price on it, you find, as you would with any other product, it tends to be rationed. We as a people on this planet have lived under the false concept that air and water were free. And we’ve learned with a planet of 7 billion people, that we have to ration these precious goods. And the good old price system is the best way to do it.”

Richard Sandor, father of the carbon trading market.