Quote: (12-07-2015 06:15 PM)Libertas Wrote:
But I simply can't take things like this seriously because these people don't seem to be really serious about it. Their plans always involve racketeering schemes into projects that don't work like Solyndra that harm everyone. Globalists vs. people again. Solar and wind are pipe dreams. Period. The choices we have with just solar and wind are business as usual, extremely punishing taxes and regulatory schemes, or reducing our standard of living by a lot.
That, I think, is the true problem here. The people tweet another hashtag and feel good about doing their part to go "green." They don't contemplate the consequences of giving the globalists what they want.
Any effective scheme to reduce the emission carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases involves imposing a monetary cost to emit them. It could be a cap and trade system or a carbon tax, but make no mistake, it involves making everyday life more expensive. Gas and energy prices will spike in addition to even more vengeful spending on alternative energy that is prohibitively expensive and often ineffective.
The elite try to respond that they can make a carbon tax or cap and trade regime "revenue neutral"--that ordinary taxes could be reduced to accommodate the new regulatory costs for what they want. But the reasoning is nothing but lies.
Who spends more of their income to drive cars to and from work? Who pays more to heat and cool their homes? It's not the rich, even though they may own three mansions and fly a private jet. It's the poor and working class; they pay a greater portion of their income to afford the basic necessities of life. And don't think for a moment that the corporate big cats are the ones who are going to pay for it. They will simply pass the cots down to the consumers. If a carbon tax makes gas cost an extra $4 (about what Europe is paying right now), the people at the pump are going to pay an extra $4. For God's sake, Exxon came out today in favor of a carbon tax:
http://http://www.houstonchronicle.com/b...682461.php
But even more perverse is what this is going to do to developing countries. All of the more developed countries in the world went through a phase when they emitted enormous amounts of pollution. Think about it. During the periods of industrial revolution in the United States and Great Britain, it was impossible too see though the smog in the larger urban cities. But what happened? The countries developed. They went through the natural economic progression from heavily-polluting manufacturing economies to consumer-based economies more concentrated on services. If the developing countries are stupid enough to go along with what the elite want, they will get what they deserve: a longer tenure as lesser developed countries.
In short, who stands to win at Paris? The elite. In more developed countries, they will win by imposing retrogressive costs on the poor, costs they will benefit from if income or corporate taxes are lowered to accommodate the carbon tax or cap and trade. In lesser developed countries, they will win by keeping them subservient, docile producers of cheap goods.
And yet the SJWs frolic. Hashtag activism indeed.